Allott said the scan would allow doctors to gain a “greater detailed understanding” of a patient’s disease.<\/p>\n
An existing scan, known as FDG, allowed them to “see some of the lesions, but potentially not all”.<\/p>\n
Using Gallium 68 would mean “we can see a greater extent of the lesion and understand how that disease is progressing for that patient”. <\/p>\n
Allott said he hoped the trial would lead to the scans being offered “more routinely” to local patients, once approval has been given by the NHS. <\/p>\n
The Daisy Appeal funds research and equipment to detect cancer, heart disease and dementia on behalf of the NHS.<\/p>\n
Prof Nick Stafford, chairman of charity’s committee of trustees, said he thought the new technologies would “improve patient outcomes”. <\/p>\n
“I think it will bring prestige to the charity, it will bring income to the charity which will be fed back directly into the project, into the development of new radio tracers and new equipment,” he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allott said the scan would allow doctors to gain a “greater detailed understanding” of a patient’s disease. An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-492723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}