PET tracks cancer treatment

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Researchers are using positron emission tomography scanning to track the progress of virus therapies as they attack cancer cells inside a living body, without using invasive techniques.

Researchers are using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to track the progress of virus therapies as they attack cancer cells inside a living body, without using invasive techniques.

 

Scientists from Imperial College London and Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry developed the technique. The research demonstrates how PET scanning can be used to see both how the virus behaves and how the cancer responds. This means that scientists can gain an accurate picture of the effects of the drug therapies whilst they are working in the body, and refine and improve them accordingly.

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