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I have found PET to be imperfect when identifying recurrent cancer within the abdomen. There are many cases of nebulous results which can be due to inflammation, infection, or some other cause of hypermetabolism and not due to recurrent cancer. At MCF, we use very high-quality MRI to better detect whether there is recurrent PDAC or not but even then, it is not entirely accurate.