Dynamic 2-Deoxy-2-[18F]Fluoro-D-Glucose Positron Emission Tomography for Chemotherapy Response Monitoring of Breast Cancer Xenografts.

Autor: Kristian, Alexandr, Holtedahl, Jon, Torheim, Turid, Futsaether, Cecilia, Hernes, Eivor, Engebraaten, Olav, Mælandsmo, Gunhild, Malinen, Eirik, Holtedahl, Jon Erik, Mælandsmo, Gunhild M
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Zdroj: Molecular Imaging & Biology; Apr2017, Vol. 19 Issue 2, p271-279, 9p
Abstrakt: Purpose: Non-invasive response monitoring can potentially be used to guide therapy selection for breast cancer patients. We employed dynamic 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography ([18F]FDG PET) to evaluate changes in three breast cancer xenograft lines in mice following three chemotherapy regimens.Procedures: Sixty-six athymic nude mice bearing bilateral breast cancer xenografts (two basal-like and one luminal-like subtype) underwent three 60 min [18F]FDG PET scans. Scans were performed prior to and 3 and 10 days after treatment with doxorubicin, paclitaxel, or carboplatin. Tumor growth was monitored in parallel. A pharmacokinetic compartmental model was fitted to the tumor uptake curves, providing estimates of transfer rates between the vascular, non-metabolized, and metabolized compartments. Early and late standardized uptake values (SUVE and SUVL, respectively); the rate constants k 1, k 2, and k 3, and the intravascular fraction v B were estimated. Changes in tumor volume were used as a response measure. Multivariate partial least-squares regression (PLSR) was used to assess if PET parameters could model tumor response and to identify PET parameters with the largest impact on response.Results: Treatment responders had significantly larger perfusion-related parameters (k 1 and k 2) and lower metabolism-related parameter (k 3) than non-responders 10 days after the start of treatment. These findings were further supported by the PLSR analysis, which showed that k 1 and k 2 at day 10 and changes in k 3 explained most of the variability in response to therapy, whereas SUVL and particularly SUVE were of lesser importance.Conclusions: Overall, rate parameters related to both tumor perfusion and metabolism were associated with tumor response. Conventional metrics of [18F]FDG uptake such as SUVE and SUVL apparently had little relation to tumor response, thus necessitating full dynamic scanning and pharmacokinetic analysis for optimal evaluation of chemotherapy-induced changes in breast cancers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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