PET response criteria in solid tumors
SET OF PUBLISHED RULES USED FOR EVALUATION OF CANCER TREATMENT
Percist; PET Response Criteria in Solid Tumors
PET response criteria in solid tumors (PERCIST) is a set of rules that define when tumors in cancer patients improve ("respond"), stay the same ("stabilize"), or worsen ("progress") during treatment, using positron emission tomography (PET). The criteria were published in May 2009 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM).