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  • Can all lung cancers be seen on a simple chest x-ray?
    A PET scan shows areas in the body where cells are uptaking FDG (a short lived form of radioactive sugar). Your lungs, which contain mostly air, do not normally have cells that uptake a lot of sugar. When...
    • answered Apr 09, 2010 at 06:03AM
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