An Observational Study of Circulating Tumor Cells and ¹⁸F-FDG PET Uptake in Patients with Treatment-Naive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

• Viswam S. Nair ,

  * E-mail: viswamnair@stanford.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Khun Visith Keu,

  Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Madelyn S. Luttgen,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Anand Kolatkar,

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Minal Vasanawala,

  Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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• Ware Kuschner,

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

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• Kelly Bethel,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Andrei H. Iagaru,

  Affiliation Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Carl Hoh,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Joseph B. Shrager,

  Affiliations Division of Thoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Billy W. Loo Jr,

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Lyudmila Bazhenova,

  Affiliation Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego Medical Center, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Jorge Nieva,

  Affiliation The Department of Hematology and Oncology, Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana, United States of America

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• Sanjiv S. Gambhir ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Peter Kuhn

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, The Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Peter Kuhn

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjiv S. Gambhir, Peter Kuhn

  Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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