February 20, 2013

Disparities based on age, race persist in PET use for lung cancer patients

Evan Godt, Molecular Imaging reports on February 19, 2013 that Demographic differences in the use of PET imaging among Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have persisted since the modality’s approval by Medicare in 1998, according to a study published online Feb. 15 in Radiology.