As you know, the PET is a Positron Emission Tomography where, after injecting a radioactive isotope linked to glucose into the blood stream we are able to measure the amount of radioactivity emitted by each cell in such a way that we are able to differentiate how much glucose has been taped by each of them. Cancer cells are “glucose guzzlers” and therefore they are detected easily by the radioactive readers of the PET machine who are able to show clearly the cancer tissue in three dimensions.
But the bad pieces of news could turn in the future into just the opposite. Last fall, Professor Tresguerres from the University of Madrid launched an attractive thesis, HGH could be the most powerful weapon to fight against cancerous cells “before they can organize as a tissue”. In the words of Professor Tresguerres if we can see a cancer tissue with the PET , HGH is contraindicated. If we cannot see a cancer tissue with the PET, HGH could be the most powerful weapon to get rid of any cancerous cell wandering in the blood stream of the patient.