Radiological Imaging in Lung Cancer

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PET/CT in Lung Cancer

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Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK (2014), but accounts for the most common cause of cancer death, and is responsible for 22% of all cancer-related deaths.

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Naseer, A., Parthipun, A., Haroon, A., Ellis, S. (2018). Radiological Imaging in Lung Cancer. In: Agrawal, A., Rangarajan, V. (eds) PET/CT in Lung Cancer. Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72661-8_4

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