Abstract Background The NICE Quality Standard for Pancreatic Cancer (December 2018) recommends that ‘adults with localised pancreatic cancer on CT(should) have staging using fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT(FDG-PET/CT) before they surgery, radiotherapy or systemic therapy’. Such FDG-PET/CT aims to provide additional information conventional cross-sectional imaging, thus presen...