The IAEA/RCA Project Training Course on Advanced Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Technologies for Improving Clinical Management of Cancer Patients is to be held on 14-18 January 2008 in Seoul, Korea in cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Korea through the Seoul National University College of Medicine.

The objectives of this meeting are to train specialists in nuclear medicine from RCA Member States in advanced PET technologies for clinical management of patients. Given lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer mortality among men, and breast cancer among women in Asia, the RCA project on Tumor Imaging Using Radioisotopes is projected to focus on the improvement of clinical management of patients with lung cancer and breast cancer in addition to malignant lymphoma, through clinical PET. Clinical PET has currently important roles for the clinical management of cancer patients in 1) evaluating viability of primary lesion, 2) staging, 3) selection of appropriate therapy, 4) monitoring therapeutic efficacy, and 5) discriminating recurrence of lesions from anatomical changes through therapies.

For more information contact Mr. Dong Soo Lee, Professor of Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, by email: dsl@plaza.snu.ac.jr, or fax: +82-2-7457690.