2 results match your criteria: "Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Cancer Research Center[Affiliation]"

Background: Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with only 12 countries in the world succeeding it in terms of population.

Aims: This review article has the objective of providing novel statistics regarding available cancer therapeutics in Punjab across four different sectors-including government, semi-private, trust and private sectors.

Methods And Results: Keywords such as "cancer treatment," "facilities," "Pakistan," were used to search Pubmed Database.

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Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose avid thyroid incidentalomas on PET/CT scan in cancer patients: how sinister are they?

Nucl Med Commun

October 2016

Departments of aNuclear MedicinebCancer Registry and Clinical Data Management, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Cancer Research Center, 7-A, R 3, Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of malignancy in incidental thyroidal uptake on PET with fluorine-18 deoxyglucose integrated with computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) in Pakistani cancer patients and to assess the role of standardized uptake value (SUV) in deciding which lesions to investigate further.

Method: We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent F-FDG PET/CT scans over a period of 59 months and further analysed those with visually increased thyroidal uptake. Uptake was classified as focal or diffuse.

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