Many people go to Japan for medical checkups in order to do early cancer screening. However, after consulting with many organizations or asking friends, many people are still skeptical about doing PET-CT, so today DuoMutual Health will provide a detailed answer to this question.
The answer is yes, PET-CT is necessary. High-end medical checkups at major general hospitals of the size of Concordia in China include PET-CT tests. The reason why many medical checkups do not recommend PET-CT tests and falsely advertise the hazards of PET-CT tests (radiation, etc.) and claim that PET-CT is a means of checking for cancer after diagnosis is actually because these organizations do not have the technical ability and level to do PET-CT tests.
The radiation level of PET-CT at one time is generally between 10 mSv-15 mSv domestically, and can be less than 10 mSv in Japan! What is the concept? It is equivalent to the amount of radiation of a chest CT, which will not cause any damage to the human body. However, it is still recommended that pregnant women do not undergo this test.
PET-CT is a diagnostic technology that was introduced at the beginning of the 21st century, and has gained widespread popularity in just a few decades, mainly because PET-CT
examinations have the advantages of CT, MRI, and other common screening equipment.
The most powerful cancer prevention equipment in the 21st century
The organic combination of PET for detecting lesions and CT for anatomical structure, both of which complement each other's strengths, can detect abnormal lesions half a year in advance compared with ordinary CT, MRI and other imaging tests, and play a 1+1>2 benefit.
One time positioning can check the whole body
One time positioning to obtain the whole body information, the whole body cross-sectional, sagittal and coronal images, can intuitively see the disease in the whole body of the affected parts and the situation, saving a lot of other imaging needs to be examined part by part of the time and money.
High sensitivity to various types of tumors
PET-CT can accurately detect the lesion site in the early stage of tumors where the morphology and structure of the lesion area are not yet abnormal but the cellular and molecular changes have already occurred, and obtain three-dimensional images for early diagnosis, which is incomparable with other imaging tests.
Super specificity for some tumors
When MRI and CT examinations find tumors in organs, it is difficult to judge whether they are benign or malignant, especially in the early stage of lesions, while PET-CT examination can make a clear diagnosis based on the characteristics of high metabolism of malignant tumors.
Up to 95% accuracy
Based on the high metabolism of malignant tumors, glucose labeled with fluorine is injected into the body before PET-CT examination, which causes abnormal concentration in the lesion area, thus determining the lesion site. This method can effectively detect most of the tumors with an accuracy rate of more than 95%.
The whole process is non-invasive and painless
PET-CT examination is actually an imaging scan, just like sunlight exposure, without any pain or trauma, and the examinee only needs to receive intravenous injection of a tiny amount of tracer and lie down to rest without any other discomfort.
Low radiation, safe and reliable
PET-CT examination of nuclide radioactivity, but the amount of nuclides used is very small, far less than a part of the conventional CT examination, and the half-life is very short, in the body of the subject to survive for a short period of time, the whole process of examination is safe and reliable.
Evaluation of the efficacy of tumor treatment
After certain treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc., whether the tumor has changed, whether the activity of the cancer cells has decreased, and whether there is still no expansion in other parts of the body can be detected at a glance through the PET-CT image, which can effectively improve the local control rate and avoid unnecessary surgeries and injuries, and it is the best auxiliary treatment instrument for all kinds of tumors. It is the best auxiliary treatment instrument for various types of tumors.
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