Costs and clinical outcomes of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in first remission: role of PET/CT surveillance.
Conclusions: Surveillance PET/CT resulted in similar clinical outcomes and medical costs compared to no surveillance PET/CT. Approximately half of patients with PET/CT findings of recurrence had no recurrence after follow-up imaging and biopsy, which would not have been carried out if PET/CT had not been performed in the first place.
PMID: 29466847 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Suh KJ, Kim KH, Kim R, Byun JM, Kim M, Park JH, Keam B, Kim TM, Kim JS, Choi IS, Heo DS Tags: Korean J Intern Med Source Type: research