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Northside Hospital Offers New Diagnostic Imaging Tool for Detection, Staging and Restaging of Rare Neuroendocrine Tumors

A new tool available at Northside Hospital aims to help doctors find disease that they were unable to see before.

According to the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation, more than 12,000 American people are diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) each year. Most NETs are not harmful. They often form in the intestine, pancreas or lungs, but sometimes trigger a rare form of cancer that can be difficult to diagnose with current imaging techniques.

The Northside Hospital Cancer Institute is one of the largest and most respected providers of cancer care services in the southeast and treats more than 300 newly diagnosed cases of NETs each year. The hospital is one of only a handful in the southeast to offer NETSPOT, a product recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the preparation of Gallium-68 (Ga-68) dotatate for PET/CT (positron emission tomography computed tomography) imaging.

Combined with PET/CT imaging, which offers higher resolution, three-dimensional and more rapid imaging than other imaging technologies, NETSPOT gives doctors a better picture of the disease and what they must treat. Patients who are diagnosed with NETs early have a better chance of beating or managing the disease.

NETSPOT is currently available at Northside Hospital imaging centers in Atlanta, Cumming, Decatur, Fayetteville and Lawrenceville.

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