Budapest:

• PET-CT examination (18F-FDG) oncological, hematological diagnostics 300 000 Ft
• PET-CT scan (18F-FET or 18F-DOPA) diagnostics of brain and nervous system tumours 300 000 Ft

Debrecen:

• PET-CT examination (18F-FDG) oncological, hematological diagnostics 280 000 Ft
• PET-CT examination (18F-FDG) brain, nervous system tumour diagnostics 280 000 Ft 
• PET-CT examination (with labelled amino acid analogue) diagnostics of brain and nervous system tumours 300 000 Ft

In the case of self-financed form up to 48 hours if there is no disqualifying factor.

A NEAK-financed examination can be requested by the eligible treating physician in the PET Central Waiting List System operated by NEAK, where the appropriate committee (simplified, professional subcommittee, central committee, depending on the indication) will assess the request within 72 hours, but committees may request a gap, which may increase the time for the approval of the examination request. Once your request has been approved, ScanoMed Ltd. will contact you within 48 hours to arrange an appointment. If all the professional prerequisites are met, you will receive an appointment within two weeks.

You can pay in advance by bank transfer, cash or credit card on the spot.

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On our website you can find out which Health Insurance Funds are our partners. Please note that you cannot use your health insurance card to pay at the centers, you can claim back the cost of the examination afterwards from the Health Insurance Fund that has signed a contract with us.

In the case of a private examination, a referral is not required, but a fully completed examination request form, approved by our specialist, is a prerequisite for the examination. The PET-CT Examination Request Form can be found on our website:

SCANOMED-Examination Request

Your identity documents, social security card, as well as your previous medical history (surgical report, histology), access code to imaging material, CT, MRI or other previous imaging results related to your disease.

For 18F-FDG, 18F-FET or 18F-DOPA PET-CT scans, a recent laboratory result is not required, but for contrast-enhanced CT or an additional CT scan, a laboratory result within 2 weeks with renal function is required.

PET-CT scans can be performed if you have a pacemaker, a medical metal implant or a prosthesis.

• Do not eat for 6 hours before the appointment, but drink plenty of sugar-free fluids (e.g. non-carbonated mineral water). Take your medicines as prescribed by your doctor.
• If you have diabetes treated with tablets, you can take your morning medication on the day of the examination and the days before if you are not taking metformin, but you should stick to the 6-hour fasting period.
• If you have diabetes that requires insulin treatment, do not change your daily diet or insulin dosage (high blood glucose levels may affect the evaluation of the examination), but please make sure you tell us that you have insulin-dependent diabetes when you make your PET-CT appointment. Please allow about 4 hours between the last meal and the start of the examination, and remember that you can only drink water during this time.
• If you are taking metformin for your diabetes, skip this medicine on the day of the examination and for the 2 days before, and follow the prescribed dietary guidelines. Follow a stricter diet than usual for the examination.
• Please avoid physically demanding activities (physical work, sports, etc.) in 72 hours before the examination, and do not have muscle fever.
• It is also advisable to make sure that you are not cold on the day of the examination until it starts (avoid staying in a cold environment, wear warm clothes).
• Please do not wear metal accessories (belts, metal buttons, metal zippers) or jewellery. If you have removable dentures, please remove them for the duration of the examination.
• If you smoke, you will also be asked not to smoke on the day of the examination.
• Breastfeeding mothers should collect enough milk for one day before the examination, as breastfeeding should be discontinued for 24 hours after the examination.
• Pregnant women and minors should not accompany the patient.
• If you have difficulty moving or need assistance, please bring a companion to assist you during the examination.

Take your medicines as prescribed by your doctor. If you have diabetes treated with tablets, you can take your morning medication on the day of the examination and the days before if you are not taking metformin, but you must observe the 6-hour fasting period.

If you have diabetes that requires insulin treatment, do not change your daily diet and insulin dosage (high blood glucose levels can make the examination less reliable). Allow about 4 hours between the last meal and the start of the examination, and remember that you can only drink water during this time. If you are taking metformin for your diabetes, avoid taking this medicine on the day of the examination and for the 2 days before, and follow the prescribed dietary instructions

In the vast majority of cases, yes, if the lesion in question is 4-5 mm or more. Tumours smaller than this cannot be clearly assessed by PET-CT. However, for some tumour types, information on malignancy above this size limit is limited for various biological reasons. These include brain tumours, certain primary tumours of the liver, tumours of the renal and urinary tract, prostate cancer, certain neuroendocrine and soft tissue tumours (sarcomas). However, these can be investigated by PET-CT using a different tracer from FDG, some of which are available in Hungary.

Waiting times:

• after chemotherapy at least 2 weeks, but optimally 4 weeks
• after surgery at least 6 weeks
  • no waiting period after colonoscopy or gastroscopy
  • in the case of thin needle biopsy, 1 week is sufficient
  • in the case of thick needle biopsy 2 to 3 weeks
• for radiotherapy at least 8 weeks, preferably more
• Deviations from the above are possible in individual cases after consultation between the treating physician and the PET-CT scanner.

Any amount of time, no such constraints.

PET-CT scanning with FDG is mainly suitable for detecting malignant tumours, but not all of them. The size limit is 4-5 mm, tumours smaller than this cannot be clearly detected by PET-CT. However, for some tumour types, information on malignancy above this size is limited for various biological reasons. These include brain tumours, certain primary tumours of the liver, tumours of the renal and urinary tract, prostate cancer, certain neuroendocrine and soft tissue tumours (sarcomas), etc. However, these can be investigated by PET-CT using a different tracer from FDG, some of which are available in Hungary.

In a conventional CT scan, with or without contrast medium, we can obtain anatomical and morphological information about the body, especially the internal organs (skull, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis): the location, shape, size of the organs, and whether there are any formations (e.g. tumours) that should not be there. 

A PET scan, on the other hand, mainly shows the function of our organs and tissues, depending on the tracer used. With FDG, the most commonly used radiopharmaceutical, energy expenditure can be studied. Most of the energy is needed for rapid cell division, which most often occurs in malignant tumours, and this is what can be seen with high accuracy in a PET scan.

Nowadays, there are no longer separate PET machines, instead they are always combined with CT (PET-CT), so that both types of information – morphological and functional – can be displayed simultaneously in one spatial position, resulting in higher diagnostic accuracy than any other imaging.

The radiation exposure of modern PET-CT machines used today is relatively low. A whole-body scan typically involves a radiation exposure of 5-10 mSv (equivalent to about 500 conventional chest X-rays), depending on the patient’s body size and the body regions imaged during the scan. By comparison, a conventional multiphase CT scan, also of a whole body, using contrast agents, is about twice as expensive: between 10 and 20 mSv.

Yes, the examination does not affect driving ability.

We don’t provide images on CD, you can download the PET-CT image from an image sharing portal and share it with your doctor using the link sharing function.

Read more:

https://scanomed.eradpacs.hu/login

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elf-financed examination:

You can request a private PET-CT scan by filling in the PET-CT Scan Request Form available on our website.

https://www.scanomed.hu/examinationrequest

You can make an appointment by telephone, but you must have a fully completed examination request form, approved by our specialist, before you can have an examination.

Contact:

Budapest: (+36) 30 639 3500

Debrecen:

SPECT/CT and isotope therapy examinations:

+36 30 648-1828

PET/CT examination

+36 30 206-8922

NEAK-funded examination:

A NEAK-funded examination can be requested by the eligible treating physician in the PET Central Waiting List System operated by NEAK, where the appropriate committee (simplified, professional subcommittee, central committee, depending on the indication) will assess the request within 72 hours, but committees may request a gap, which may increase the time for the approval of the examination request. Once your request has been approved, ScanoMed Ltd. will contact you within 48 hours to arrange an appointment. If all the professional prerequisites are met, you will receive an appointment within two weeks.

Contact:

Budapest: (+36) 1 422 3880

Debrecen: (+36) 52 526 020

– Patient portal – how to download the images?

https://scanomed.eradpacs.hu/login

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Once your report is complete, it will be automatically uploaded to EESZT, where you can log in using your account login details. After logging in, you can select Health Documents from the top menu (fourth menu item from the left) and after setting the time interval, you will see your health documents created within the specified period. Click on the item to view it.

In addition, your doctor who ordered the examination and your general practitioner will also have access to your records, if you have not excluded this option in the digital self-certification.

Read more:

https://e-egeszsegugy.gov.hu/hu/lakossagi-portal-gyik

https://e-egeszsegugy.gov.hu/onrendelkezes

If my doctor cannot find the images, what can I do?

https://scanomed.eradpacs.hu/login

How does the PET-CT scan work?

https://www.scanomed.hu/pet-ct-vizsgalat-menete

Where can I find Scanomed centers?

ScanoMed Budapest

1145 Budapest, Laky Adolf u. 44-46. D building/1st floor

By public transport from Erzsébet királyné út: trams 3 and 69, or bus 5, a few minutes’ walk from the Laky Adolf stop. 

From Thököly út: buses 7, 110, 112 from the American Road stop, a few minutes’ walk. 

If you are coming by train, from Zugló train station, it is a 15-20 minute walk along Thököly út in the direction of Amerikai út.

ScanoMed Debrecen

4032 Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98.

By public transport from Nagyerdei krt.: tram number 1 or buses number 10, 10A, 10Y, 12, 13, 22, 24, 51E from the Clinical Centre stop, a few minutes walk.

From Móricz Zsigmond út: by buses 10, 10A, 10Y, 12, 22Y, 24Y from the Clinical Centre, Auguszta stop, a few minutes walk.

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Budapest:

If you arrive by car, you can park for a fee in Laky Adolf and the surrounding streets.

On working days between 8:00 and 18:00, the parking fee is 300 HUF/hour.

Debrecen:

If you are coming by car, you can enter the University of Debrecen Clinical Centre from the Pallagi út or Móricz Zsigmond út entrances. The first half an hour is free of charge, but each subsequent half hour is subject to a parking fee. It is recommended to use the paid parking lot on Pallagi út, where you can buy a daily ticket at a reduced price.

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Our staff are aware that the results of an examination are often urgent, so when you register, the customer service team will let you know when your results are expected.

In the case of a self-finacned examination, you or your proxy can collect your results in person at the ScanoMed reception between 10 am and 3 pm on the working day following the examination – in which case you will also have the opportunity to consult the specialist who performed the examination – or we will send them to you by e-mail and print them out for you. You can also consult the diagnostic specialist by telephone after receiving your findings, if you have any questions.

For NEAK-funded examinations, we will mail you the completed report within a maximum of 7 working days, which can be up to 2-3 working days in urgent cases.

If the examination is NEAK-funded, the report will be automatically uploaded to the NEAK Waiting List System and in all cases to EESZT („cloud”).

https://www.scanomed.hu/patient-portal

PET-CT scans are most often and most commonly performed with FDG as a radioactive tracer. This scan is essentially used to detect areas (cell groups, tissues) of the body where there is a significant increase in cellular metabolism, most often due to increased rates of cell division. Such rapidly dividing cells are most common in malignant tumours. The scan can therefore detect most cancers and their metastases.

Unfortunately, not all cancers are the same. For various biological reasons, some cancers, such as the more common prostate, brain, kidney and urinary tract, and liver primary malignancies and their metastases, cannot be investigated with this method or are very limited.

FDG PET-CT is suitable for certain types of inflammation in non-cancerous diseases, such as certain rare diseases of immunological origin (large vessel vasculitis), Boeck’s sarcoidosis, inflammation around implants (e.g. prostheses, prostheses), etc. But it is not recommended for inflammation in general, which can usually be detected with other faster, simpler, cheaper and less radiation-intensive methods.

It is also used to a limited extent in neurology in some cases to distinguish epilepsies and some dementias, but in the vast majority of cases these diseases can be well diagnosed by other methods.

In addition, in cardiology, FDG PET-CT can also play a role in the investigation of carotid artery diseases (e.g. myocardial infarction), but there are also many other – simpler, cheaper – methods available, and currently the scan is not widely used in Hungary.

Generally speaking, noncancerous diseases can only be investigated with FDG PET-CT to a limited extent or not at all. In such cases, an individual assessment is always necessary before planning a scan, analysing the potential benefits/information gain and risks/costs.

Radioiodine therapy is used in cases of hyperthyroidism and for post-operative so-called ablation of iodine-absorbing thyroid tumours or to treat metastases.

In general, proper patient preparation is a very important part of the patient assessment! On the advice of your doctor, the following points should be followed in the case of hyperthyroidism:

• Thyroid inhibitor must be discontinued before therapy
• Iodine intake, both in the form of iodine-containing medicines, multivitamin preparations and food, should also be avoided.
• Fasting for 6 hours before the examination is required. You can eat 1 hour after taking the capsule.

Arrive on time for your therapy on the agreed day and time. The radioiodine capsule is a very small, white starch capsule that can be swallowed easily after moistening the mouth with 1-2dl of water. The capsule should not be chewed. Avoid the immediate vicinity of pregnant women and young children for 1 week after therapy.

The treatment of iodine-absorbing tumours with high-dose radioiodine is carried out in hospital, and information is always provided during a personal consultation. Lutathera therapy will also be preceded by a status assessment and personal consultation.

Generally speaking, radiopharmaceuticals or radiopharmaceuticals contain very small amounts of active substances, and therefore the incidence of allergic reactions is very low and can be considered as rarity in the literature.