Intratumoral heterogeneity on dedicated breast positron emission tomography predicts malignancy grade of breast cancer.

Norio MasumotoTakayuki KadoyaShinsuke SasadaAkiko EmiKoji ArihiroMorihito Okada

Published in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2018)

The SUVmax of DbPET correlates with clinicopathological factors and also WBPET does. In addition, intratumoral heterogeneity on DbPET provides predictive value for malignancy grade and could inform therapeutic decisions.

Keyphrases

positron emission tomography
computed tomography
single cell
pet ct
pet imaging