Antonio Luna • Joan C. Vilanova
L. Celso Hygino da Cruz Jr.
Santiago E. Rossi
Editors

2014

Clinical Applications – Volume 2

In the last decades, comprehensive cancer care and research have been both critically dependent on imaging. The role of anatomical imaging with ultra- sound, CT and MRI has grown progressively. Application of medical imaging in cancer patients has expanded from diagnosis and staging to screening, guide for treatment, therapeutic monitoring, detection of recurrence and prediction of treatment response. The role of imaging has changed due in part to the introduction of functional imaging with PET at the end of the last century.