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Do you routinely use PET/CT to monitor response to systemic therapies in metastatic breast cancer?

What about patients with bone-only metastases?
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Medical Oncology · University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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This is an interesting question. I think a lot of us use systemic CT or PET-CT scanning at 3-4 month intervals to screen for progression in MBC while someone is on a therapy. Many of us do this even in bone only disease, looking for new metastases in visceral sites. There is a recent JCO publication...

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