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Article: Florida Residents Able to Take Advantage of New Cancer-Detection Technology.
- Article from:
- PC World
- Article date:
- April 13, 2002
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Byline: Janie Nelson
Apr. 13--It looks like a screen saver. The outline of a body spins in 3-D on a computer monitor. Black spots appear everywhere: some small, some large, in the brain, around the neck, under the arm.
Those spots are cancer.
The monitor is reading an image that comes from a PET (Positron Emission Tomography ) scan -- one of the latest and most effective tools radiologists are using to detect cancer and the causes of some seizures.
Every Friday for a year, a mobile PET scanner has made the trip to Tallahassee from Fort Walton Beach. The big white trailer wedges into a space in the Radiology Associates parking lot, ready ...