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Steven D. Wexner, MD
Fort Lauderdale, Fla

Arch Surg. 1999;134:511-513.

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Valk et al are certainly to be congratulated for their fervent enthusiasm for this new privately held technology. The skeptic might assume that since these private physicians are based in a PET imaging center, they would bias a study by design to favor PET scan; however, it is important to put aside all such potentially cynical prejudices in favor of academic interpretation of a large number of patients carefully assessed by a variety of means and numerous statistical tests. It is particularly important to do so in light of the scope of this problem. Colorectal cancer is the second most common noncutaneous malignant neoplasm, anticipated to affect approximately 165,000 people this year.¹ It can also be anticipated that more than 40% of patients, despite seemingly curative resections, will experience a recurrence of their disease.^2-4 The most common sites of recurrence are the pelvis, liver, and lungs. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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