Molecular imaging of cancer with positron emission tomography

SS Gambhir - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2002 - nature.com
The imaging of specific molecular targets that are associated with cancer should allow
earlier diagnosis and better management of oncology patients. Positron emission …

A tabulated summary of the FDG PET literature

SS Gambhir, J Czernin, J Schwimmer… - Journal of nuclear …, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
This special supplement to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine is a detailed tabulation of
literature on FDG PET in oncology (1993–June 2000), cardiology (1986–June 2000), and …

Positron-emission tomography and assessment of cancer therapy

ME Juweid, BD Cheson - New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
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PET/CT: Form and Function1

TM Blodgett, CC Meltzer, DW Townsend - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is playing an increasingly
important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy …

Hypoxic regulation of glucose transport, anaerobic metabolism and angiogenesis in cancer: novel pathways and targets for anticancer therapeutics

RE Airley, A Mobasheri - Chemotherapy, 2007 - karger.com
Cancer cells require a steady source of metabolic energy in order to continue their
uncontrolled growth and proliferation. Accelerated glycolysis is one of the biochemical …

Head and neck cancer: clinical usefulness and accuracy of PET/CT image fusion

H Schoder, HWD Yeung, M Gonen, D Kraus… - Radiology, 2004 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To compare diagnostic accuracy of attenuation-corrected positron emission
tomography (PET) with fused PET and computed tomography (CT) in patients with head and …

Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography for Recurrent Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

RJ Wong, DT Lin, H Schoder, SG Patel… - Journal of clinical …, 2002 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: Patients with recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy and …

Serial positron emission tomography scans following radiation therapy of patients with head and neck cancer

KM Greven, DW Williams III… - Head & Neck …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Background A single institution study was undertaken to evaluate the role of positron
emission tomography (PET) scans with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) prior to radiation and …

Prospective study of 18FDG‐PET in the detection and management of patients with lymph node metastases to the neck from an unknown primary tumor. Results from …

J Johansen, S Buus, A Loft, S Keiding… - Head & Neck …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background. The benefit of a complementary fluorodeoxyglucose‐positron emission
tomography (FDG‐PET) scan to standard workup for carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) …

Tumor-specific methylation in saliva: a promising biomarker for early detection of head and neck cancer recurrence

CA Righini, F de Fraipont, JF Timsit, C Faure… - Clinical cancer …, 2007 - AACR
Purpose: Our goal was to define tumor and saliva gene methylation profile of head and neck
squamous cell carcinoma and to evaluate its prognostic significance and its biomarker …