Journal of Molecular Imaging & Dynamics
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-9937
ISSN: 2155-9937
Tímea Tőkés
Oncology Division,
Faculty of Medicine, Budapest
Hungary
Research Article
PET-CT Imaging in Breast Cancer Patients: New Tracers, Future Directions
Author(s): Tímea Tőkés, Kornélia Kajáry, László Torgyík, Zsolt Lengyel, Tamás Györke and Magdolna Dank Med. HabilTímea Tőkés, Kornélia Kajáry, László Torgyík, Zsolt Lengyel, Tamás Györke and Magdolna Dank Med. Habil
Positron Emission Tomography using 18F-fluoro-deoxi-glucose (FDG-PET) is giving a new perspective in disease staging and therapeutic response evaluation in daily oncological practice. To understand better the biological behavior and therapeutic response of breast cancer, new tracers and targets of molecular imaging are under investigation.These tracers may lead to non-invasive evaluation of the main, leading therapeutic decision-maker properties of metastatic breast cancer such as receptor status, proliferation activity and therapy resistance, and could also become predictive markers in the early measurement of therapeutic response in the neoadjuvant treatment of locally advanced breast cancer. However, these new agents are currently not available in the daily practice; the preliminary results are promising.
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DOI:
10.4172/2155-9937.1000111