“There are situations where a CT scan provides sufficient information ... As new therapies are developed and treatment for follicular lymphoma evolves, the role of PET-CT will be subject to ...

Follicular lymphoma ... see if the disease has spread. CT scan, or computed tomography. It's a powerful X-ray that makes detailed pictures inside your body. PET scan. This creates 3-D images ...

Why? That is the question requiring further investigation and longer follow-up; therefore, we recommend always performing the PET scan before the therapy. In the posttreatment evaluation of FL ...

Follicular lymphoma is a diverse disease, both biologically and clinically. Patients may present with indolent, asymptomatic disease or more aggressive, symptomatic disease with high tumor burden.

Follicular lymphoma -- typically a slow-growing or ... "For example, we may look at the PET scan and if the scan shows very small lymph nodes, many of us are OK with observation.

FL with blastoid or large centrocyte cytologic features, or follicular large B-cell lymphoma (FL grade 3B) are excluded ... End-of-treatment assessment is performed by positron emission ...