Clinical impact of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) on oncological patients and as a potentially adequate applicator
Keywords:
POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY, FLUORODESOXYGLUCOSE F18, NEOPLASMSAbstract
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a medical nuclear technique that may prevent cancer using mechanisms to alter neoplastic process.
In this review we describe oncologic applications of PET and analyze the national sanitary and academic context where those could take place. The most used trazer in oncology is a fluor marker glucose analogue: 18F-2-fluor-2-desoxi-D-glucose (FDG). In that way, PET may detect tumor retention of FDG due to a mayor glucolitic index of cancer cells.
Also, PET tomography allows to study the entire body in the same exploration and some are coupled to a Computarized axial tomography (CAT/PET). Diagnosis and categorization of stages could be determine in 90% of patients with cancer using PET-FDG, a higher percent compared to the obtained by conventional imaging techniques. Moreover, responses to treatment and relevant prognostic information could be known in advance.
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54) García Velloso MJ, Boán García JF, Villar Luque LM, Aramendia Beitia JM, López García G, Richter Echeverría JA. Tomografía por emisión de positrones con F-18-FDG en el diagnóstico de recurrencia del cáncer de ovario: Comparación con TAC y CA 125. Rev Esp Med Nucl 2003; 22: 217-23.
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57) Quek ML, Simma-Chiang V, Stein JP, Pinski J, Quinn DI, Skinner DG. Postchemotherapy residual masses in advanced seminoma; current management and outcomes. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2005; 5: 869-74.
58) Becherer A, De Santis M, Karanikas G, Szabo M, Bokemeyer C, Dohmen BM, et al. FDG PET is superior to CT in the prediction of viable tumour in post-chemotherapy seminoma residuals. Eur J Radiol 2005; 54: 284-8.
59) Messa C, Bettinardi V, Picchio M, Pelosi E, Landoni C, Gianolli L, et al. PET/CT in diagnostic oncology. Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2004; 48: 66-75.
60) Coleman RE, Delbeke D, Guiberteau MJ, Conti PS, Royal HD, Weinreb JC, et al. Concurrent PET/CT with an integrated imaging system: intersociety dialogue from the joint working group of the American College of Radiology, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance. J Nucl Med 2005; 46: 1225-39.
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Alonso O. Clinical impact of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) on oncological patients and as a potentially adequate applicator. Rev. Méd. Urug. [Internet]. 2006 Sep. 30 [cited 2024 Nov. 24];22(3):169-78. Available from: https://revista.rmu.org.uy/index.php/rmu/article/view/687
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