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Professor of radiology
Expertise: Nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography (PET), cancer, oncology, breast cancer, carcinoma
Bio: Siegel is a faculty member of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He is an expert in the use of metabolic tracers and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to detect and analyze tumors. The techniques he and others have developed help physicians distinguish primary tumors from metastatic tumors, identify recurrent tumors and predict patient response to therapy. Current areas of interest include studies to assess the efficacy of staging of several different cancers with PET scans, predicting therapeutic responsiveness of breast carcinoma and assessing tumor hypoxia.
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M.D. at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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A change of plans
Study confirms impact of PET scans on cancer care
March 26,
2008 -- A national review has revealed that positron emission tomography (PET) scans of cancer patients led clinicians to change treatment plans for more than a third of the patients, scientists report this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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