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06-09-2010, 10:27 PM
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Medications For Blood-Sugar Lowering May Increase Risk For False Positive Results In
A study presented at SNM's 57th Annual Meeting suggests that medication ingested to control blood-sugar levels can skew the results of cancer screenings using positron emission tomography (PET), a molecular imaging technique, by increasing absorption in the gut of the PET imaging agent called fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG), which mimics sugar inside the body. "The use of certain medications can ...
    
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