# OnCo record medicare-ncd-220-6-17 (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-ncd-220-6-17/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "medicare-ncd-220-6-17" ;
  schema:name "Medicare NCD 220.6.17: FDG PET for cancer"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "NCD 220.6.17"@en, "Positron Emission Tomography (FDG) for Oncologic Conditions"@en, "Medicare FDG PET coverage"@en ;
  schema:description "Medicare pays for one FDG PET scan to plan the first treatment of most cancers, and for three more scans after the first treatment is finished; a local contractor decides on any further scans. A few uses are excluded, such as planning first treatment for prostate cancer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-ncd-220-6-17/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-04"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncd.aspx?ncdid=331&ncdver=4>, <https://api.coverage.cms.gov/v1/data/ncd?ncdid=331&ncdver=4> ;
  onco:tag "us" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/ovarian/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/multiple-myeloma/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/fdg-pet/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pet-ct/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/cms/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/medicare-ced/> .