A simple and non-invasive imaging method can effectively replace the current practice in determining appropriateness of breast cancer treatment, thereby reducing the need for invasive tissue sampling, new research has found.  The results suggest that the method might lead to more optimal treatment of individual patients.  “The new method might substitute invasive tissue sampling in the near future,” said one of the researchers Jens Sorensen from Uppsala University in Sweden.  The aim of the current study was to develop a simpler and non-invasive technique, based on whole-body PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computerised tomography) imaging, and compare the results of image analysis to the invasive measurements in the same patients.  {read more here}