Table 1.
An overview of PET-CT scans performed and number of patients examined (2010–2013)
| Exams | Patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | PET-CT | % | PET-CT | % | Exams/pt | |
| Total | 796 | 100 | 706 | 100.0 | ||
| Sex | Females | 324 | 40.7 | 291 | 41.2 | 1.1 |
| Males | 472 | 59.3 | 415 | 58.8 | 1.1 | |
| Year | 2010 | 126 | 15.8 | |||
| 2011 | 202 | 25.4 | ||||
| 2012 | 203 | 25.5 | ||||
| 2013 | 265 | 33.3 | ||||
| County | Finnmark | 156 | 19.6 | 140 | 19.8 | 1.1 |
| Troms | 349 | 43.8 | 311 | 44.1 | 1.1 | |
| Nordland | 282 | 35.4 | 249 | 35.3 | 1.1 | |
| Others/unknown | 9 | 1.1 | 6 | 0.8 | 1.5 | |
| Diseases | Lung cancer | 260 | 32.7 | 246 | 34.8 | 1.1 |
| Malignant melanoma | 90 | 11.3 | 61 | 8.6 | 1.5 | |
| Colorectal cancer | 87 | 10.9 | 76 | 10.8 | 1.1 | |
| Lymphoma | 77 | 9.7 | 71 | 10.1 | 1.1 | |
| Head & neck carcinoma | 44 | 5.5 | 40 | 5.7 | 1.1 | |
| Urogenital cancer | 28 | 3.5 | 21 | 3.0 | 1.3 | |
| Thyreoid carcinoma | 25 | 3.1 | 23 | 3.3 | 1.1 | |
| Gynaecological cancer | 25 | 3.1 | 21 | 3.0 | 1.2 | |
| Upper GI-cancer | 17 | 2.1 | 17 | 2.1 | 1.0 | |
| Breast cancer | 8 | 1.0 | 8 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |
| Other cancers | 14 | 1.6 | 13 | 1.8 | 1.1 | |
| Cancer, unknown origin | 54 | 6.8 | 46 | 6.5 | 1.2 | |
| Inflammatory disease | 51 | 6.4 | 44 | 6.2 | 1.2 | |
| Sarcoidosis | 12 | 1.5 | 11 | 1.8 | 1.1 | |
| Others | 4 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 2.0 | |