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Metabolic Positron Emission Tomography Imaging in Cancer Detection and Therapy Response
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides a functional or metabolic assessment of normal tissue or disease conditions. Fluorine 18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging (FDG-PET) is widely used clinically for tumor imaging due to increased glucose metabolism in most types of tumors, and has been shown to improve the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of cancers. We review its use in cancer diagnosis, staging, restaging, and assessment of response to treatment. In addition, other metabolic PET imaging agents in pre-clinical research or clinical trial stages of development are discussed, including amino acid analogs based on increased protein synthesis, and choline, which is based on increased membrane lipid synthesis. Amino acid analogs and choline are more specific to tumor cells than FDG, so they play an important role in differentiating cancers from benign conditions and in the diagnosis of cancers with low FDG uptake or high background FDG uptake. For decades, researchers have shown that tumors display altered metabolic profiles with elevated uptake of glucose, amino acids, and lipids. This can be used for cancer diagnosis and monitoring of the therapeutic response with excellent signal-to-noise ratios.
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“Despite challenges associated with targeting glucose metabolism directly, glucose uptake by cancer cells has been successfully exploited in patients through the use of the fluoro-deoxyglucose positron-emission-tomography (FDG-PET) imaging to stage cancers and assess response to therapy (d’Amico, 2015; Farwell et al., 2014; Zhu et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhu, A., Lee, D., & Shim, H.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shim, Hyunsuk
- Venue
- Seminars in Oncology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-02
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-69
- ISSN
- 0093-7754 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3075495
- OpenAlex
- W1982620463
- Cited by
- 368
- References
- 121
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Seminars in Oncology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (P50CA128301)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
- Keywords
- FDG-PET, cancer diagnosis, tumor staging, restaging, treatment response assessment, amino acid analogs, choline PET, tumor glucose metabolism, tumor lipid metabolism, tumor imaging agents
- MeSH terms
- Choline, Humans, Neoplasm Staging, Neoplasms, Sensitivity and Specificity, Tyrosine, Drug Monitoring, Radiopharmaceuticals, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Positron-Emission Tomography, Molecular Imaging
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