Aggressive Lung Adenocarcinoma Subtype May Require New Treatment Strategy
Aggressive Lung Adenocarcinoma Subtype May Require New Treatment Strategy Patients with early-stage adenocarcinoma, their tumors surgically without additional treatment. been the standard for stage I patients tumors are small and not spread to nearby nodes. Now research led Memorial Sloan Kettering thoracic and scientist Prasad Adusumilli identified a subset of patients cancer is likely to return soon Aggressive Lung Adenocarcinoma removal,” says Dr. “We can now aggressive tumors among early-stage cancers, such as chemotherapy. Munir Ghesani, MD, FACNM, is assistant professor of radiology and director of PET/CT fellowship at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. He also is a HemOnc Today Editorial Board Member. He can be reached at munir. ghesani@nyumc. org . In our case, the patient was referred for restaging 18F-FDG PET/CT for his known metastatic neuroendocrine tumor. In addition to the cardiac metastatic lesion, additional metastatic deposits were detected in the medi...