Fran Lowry

Despite a complex array of tests for imaging the abdomen, there are really only three things that oncologists need to tell radiologists in order to get the most out of these imaging studies, according to Dr. Fergus V. Coakley, chief of abdominal imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.

FDG-PET continues to gain ground as a potential go-to modality for assessing postchemotherapy response, Belgian researchers reported in a poster at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.