Cancer patients to benefit from new diagnostic device at NTUH

Today National Taiwan University Hospital introduced a new device that combines positron emission tomography with the nuclear magnetic resonance technology used in MRIs. This cutting-edge tool will assist doctors in making cancer diagnoses and deciding on treatments. Traditional NMR technology to track cancer cells in organs and PET to explore the possibility of metastasis are both part of this device. Before NTUH's ribbon cutting ceremony today, the tool was already put to use. Tiffany ShihNTUH Dep't of RadiologyAlready at least two or three patients have had their original plans for surgery or therapy changed after we tested them using this MRI/PET scan device.According to NTUH, the device can increase the accuracy of cancer diagnoses from 80 percent to 98 percent. It also lowers radiati