Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$600,094.00

Award Date

8/03/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Patients with advanced cervical cancer are treated with chemoradiation. Pretreatment positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is routinely utilized for these patients to determine the extent of their disease, to aid in radiati