Immunophenotyping invasive breast cancer: paving the road for molecular imaging

Paving the Road Towards Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging

Driven by curiosity and technically capable to construct a simple microscope from hand-made magnifying glasses, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first to discover the world of “very little animalcules” in 1674. When he reported his sensational observations in a letter to the Royal Society of London, he felt obliged to increase the reliability of his findings by including written attestations from...

Molecular imaging approaches in the diagnosis of breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction:The accuracy of positron emission tomography with computed tomography (PET/CT), positron emission mammography (PEM), and breast specific-gamma imaging (BSGI) in diagnosing breast cancer has never been systematically assessed, the present systematic review was aimed to address this issue.  Methods:PubMed, Scopus and EMBASE were searched for st...

Breast cancer imaging: a new role of Tc-99m sestamibi prone scintimammography for diagnosisof breast cancer

Mammography remians the procedure of choice in screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer. However, in patients with symptoms, other types of imaging play an important role in the detection of malignancies. The high cost and lack of availability of PET and MRI largely precludes the use in this patient population. TI-201 is nbt the imaging agent of choice because of its wash-out and redistri...

Radiotracers for Molecular Imaging of Breast Cancer

Molecular Imaging in Breast Cancer

1 IDIS, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2 Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas (CSIC), 46022 València, Spain 3Nuclear Medicine Department, The Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, 10...