Acute radiation oesophagitis associated with 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose uptake on positron emission tomography/CT during chemo-radiation therapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer

Sarah Everitt; Jason Callahan; Eman Obeid; Rodney J Hicks; Michael Mac Manus; David Ball

Journal article

Acute radiation oesophagitis associated with 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-d-glucose uptake on positron emission tomography/CT during chemo-radiation therapy in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer

Sarah Everitt, Jason Callahan, Eman Obeid, Rodney J Hicks, Michael Mac Manus, David Ball

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology | WILEY | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1111/1754-9485.12631

University of Melbourne Researchers

David Ball Author The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

Sarah Everitt Author The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

Michael MacManus Author The Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology

Rodney Hicks Author Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital

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Grants

Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (APP1003895) and Victorian Cancer Agency (SJE). The authors thank Nicholas Hardcastle for assistance with data transfer, study coordinator Jenny Trinh, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine colleagues for scanning patients and Mary Duffy, Laura Sparks, Alissa Michienzi, Nicole Kiss and Lineker Mai for assistance with data collection.