KTIV Healthbeat Story Helps Promote Value of New State-of-the-Art PET Scanner

We are committed to providing the most advanced cancer treatment in the region and that requires state-of-the-art technology. The most recent upgrade in our center’s equipment occurred in February as we commissioned and started using a new leading-edge PET scanner. Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important tool in the diagnosis and staging of cancer, including re-staging throughout treatment.

This new PET scanner is not only an investment to the Cancer Center but also to the medical community within the 15-county service area as the June E. Nylen Cancer Center has the only permanent PET scanner in the 75-mile area. The project to add the new scanner totaled $2.9 million and $1 million of it was funded by generous donations.

Click HERE to watch KTIV’s Healthbeat story from April 11 to see why this new state-of-the-art PET scanner is important to physicians, staff, and patients like 38-year-old Shandy Grant who was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2019 and has had more than a dozen PET scans since then.

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