Table 1: Studies that compared PET-CT and CT-TAP in the detection of metastatic disease in breast cancer patients
| Author | Year | Journal | n | Patients group | Results: PET-CT (%) | Results:CT-TAP (%) |
| Piperkova | 2007 | ClinNuc Med | 49 | Initial staging, re-staging post-surgery, evaluating treatment response |
Sensitivity 97.8 Specificity 93.5 |
Sensitivity 87.6 Specificity 42.0 |
| Piccardo | 2012 | Eur J Radiol | 39 | Stage I-IV | Sensitivity 91 Specificity 91 |
Sensitivity 77 Specificity 93 |
| Segaert | 2010 | Breast J | 70 | Stage IIB and III | Sensitivity 96 | Sensitivity 86 |
| Total | 158 |