PET facts:

PET is safe.

PET can tell whether a tumor is benign or cancerous.

PET shows all the organ systems of the body in a single exam, so it can indicate whether or not cancer has spread.

PET diagnoses disease often before it shows up on other tests.

PET shows the progress of disease and how the body responds to treatment. New, combined PET/CT scanners provide physicians with both anatomical and molecular images in the same test.

Medicare now covers PET imaging for many cancer indications, such as lung, breast, colorectal, head and neck and esophageal cancer, lymphoma and melanoma. Coverage is also available for epilepsy, and heart disease.

PET can effectively pinpoint the source of many of the most common cancers, heart disease and neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, eliminating the need for redundant tests and diagnostic surgical procedures.

PET is a powerful, proven diagnostic imaging modality that displays the biological basis of function in the organ systems of the human body unobtainable through any other means.