Novelties from the Joint EANM/SNMMI/ANZSNM Guidelines on Immunotherapy.
Egesta LopciAngelo CastelloLuca FilippiPublished in: Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals (2023)
In the past decade, the implementation of immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has determined a major change in the management of oncological patients. The challenges associated to the new therapeutic regimen have promoted adapted criteria for response assessment to interpret imaging findings and atypical patterns of response. Parallel to the new morphological criteria, also 18 fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission/computed tomography imaging has required novel approaches and specific guidelines on how to perform, interpret, and report the scan in patients with solid tumors under immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy. A summary of the novelties related to the new joint international European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)/Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)/Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) guidelines on immunotherapy is provided herein to elucidate most critical aspects in image interpretation.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- high resolution
- clinical practice
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- deep learning
- cell cycle
- prostate cancer
- fluorescence imaging
- stem cells
- robot assisted
- mesenchymal stem cells
- smoking cessation
- clinical evaluation