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SM Journal of Biomedical Engineering

Radiation Induced Secondary Lung Cancer Detected with F-18 FDG-PET/ CT 20 Years after Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer

[ ISSN : 2573-3702 ]

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Received: 26-Nov-2016

Accepted: 07-Mar-2017

Published: 10-Mar-2017

Case Report | Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Article DOI :

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Burcak Yilmaz Gunes¹* and Fatih Hikmet Özvar²

¹Istanbul SisliHamidiyeEtfal Research and Training Hospital, Nuclear Medicine Department, Turkey
²Istanbul SisliHamidiyeEtfal Research and Training Hospital, Radiation Oncology Department, Turkey

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Burcak Yilmaz Gunes, Istanbul SisliHamidiyeEtfal Research and Training Hospital, Nuclear Medicine Department, Istanbul, Turkey, Tel: +902123735223; Fax: +90 212 224 07 72; Email: drburcak@gmail.com

Keywords

F-18 FDG PET/CT; Radiotherapy; Secondary lung cancer

Abstract

Irradiation of surrounding tissues during breast Radiotherapy (RT) may cause secondary cancers to develop within these tissues. Here we report a case of non-small cell lung cancer developed within irradiated field of right lung after RT of right breast cancer 20 years later which was detected with Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (F-18 FDG PET/CT).

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Gunes BY and Özvar FH. Radiation Induced Secondary Lung Cancer Detected with F-18 FDG-PET/CT 20 Years after Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer. SM J Biomed Eng. 2017; 3(2): 1017.