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Replies to "Look at the diet protocol for typical PET scans. It is a low sugar diet. The..."
Yes. Look at the FDG PET scan, which is typically used for cancer diagnosis. FDG is a radioactive glucose -- glucose because it tends to get sucked up by cancer cells. This scan is useless in prostate cancer according to a radiation oncologist that I once saw at MSK, because prostate cancer is somewhat of an outlier in the way it reacts to sugar.