Reduced glucose uptake with markedly increased gastrin releasing peptide, osteopontine & asbestos found in dark black areas of PET Scan of chest wall in patient with mesothelioma.

PET Scans are most often used for detecting cancer and otber malignant tumors because for most of them, glucose uptake is bigher tban in normal tissues. However, in mesothelioma, our study showed excessive deposits of Asbestos of 0.5mg BDORT units, and markedly reduced Glucose uptake of less tban 1/30 of normal tissue. As a consequence, the authors found tbat, in the location where there is a mesotbelioma, distinctive dark black areas mucb darker than any normal tissue appear in tbe PET Scan. Tberefore, a PET Scan taken parallel to the front & back ofthe chest wall often shows pitcb-black areas on the cbest wall ofthe patient, located on the ribs in tbe case of large black areas and between the ribs in tbe case of small black areas. If the amount of Asbestos in these areas is found to be