Assessment of residual tumour by FDG-PET: Conventional imaging and clinical examination following primary chemotherapy of large and locally advanced breast cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-41

  Dose Schwarz, J ^a   Tiling, R ^b   Avril Sassen, S ^c   Mahner, S ^a   Lebeau, A ^a   Weber, C ^a   Schwaiger, M ^c   Janicke F ^a   Untch, M ^b,e   Avril, N ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HELIOS KLINIKUM BERLIN BUCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assessment of treatment response; Breast cancer; Breast imaging; FDG PET; Primary systemic therapy

Indexed keywords

EPIRUBICIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PACLITAXEL; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PACLITAXEL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, MAMMARY;

EID: 74249089971     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605427     Document Type: Article

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