Can a PET scan be useful for Breast cancer?

Definitely!! PET scans are approved by medicare for staging purposes in certain cancers, and breast cancer is one of them.

Yes. But the most useful so far is ultrasound and mammography.

Not that I'm aware of; also, third parties wouldn't reimbure for PET of the breast -- it's hard enough to get them to pay for PETs of the brain.

Pet scans can detect any cancerous activity even on a cellular level. so i would say yes.

A PET scan is useful in detecting cancer that has spread outside of the breast. The exact purpose of having a PET scan is -

Positron emission tomography, or PET scan, determines the way the body's cells act in the presence of sugar. Normal cells take in sugar and use it to make energy. Cancer cells usually take in more sugar than normal cells. You will be given a special type of sugar before the test. The PET scan will detect the presence of tumors by detecting hot spots, which are brightly colored areas on the picture where the sugar has been absorbed by cells. The more sugar the tumor takes in, the more likely it is a cancer. A PET scan is useful in detecting cancer that has spread outside of the breast.-

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