Diagnostic imaging in contemporary oncology

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Diagnostic imaging in contemporary oncology

Journal Title: Postępy Nauk Medycznych - Year 2011, Vol 24, Issue 2

Abstract

Diagnostic imaging has an important role in all stages of management of oncologic patients and its proper application leads not only to improved treatment results, but also to increased cost-effectiveness.The great number of currently available imaging modalities causes that this just the radiologist is to have decisive opinion in selection of the diagnostic method of choice for the given patient, diagnostic problem or clinical issue.For many years, radiologic studies were structural imaging, presenting morphological features of normal tissues and pathologic processes, including neoplasms in these structures. New techniques of radiology and diagnostic imaging allow for structural and functional imaging of a neoplasm. Functional diagnostic imaging provides important data for treatment of patients with malignancies. MRI best combines – among the currently available methods – possibilities of morphological and functional imaging and – to some extent – it offers a possibilities of molecular imagingMain applications of diagnostic imaging in the modern oncology are:1. detection and diagnosis of the neoplasm (at the earliest stage of the disease)2. tumor staging3. biopsy (image guided biopsy)4. treatment support5. monitoring and prediction of treatment response6. assessment of treatment efficiency7. follow-up8. detection and monitoring of early and late complications after treatment9. supporting clinical trials of new therapeutic agents or in oncology drug development

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Barbara Bobek-Billewicz

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