Application of Nuclear Medicine in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
A special issue of Current Oncology (ISSN 1718-7729).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 701
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Interests: nuclear medicine; peptide receptor radionuclide therapy; endocrinology; oncology; computed tomography
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Dear Colleagues,
Nuclear medicine has rapidly advanced in recent times. In just thirty years, it has made two significant leaps forward and is now on the brink of another breakthrough that could significantly affect cancer treatment within the coming years.
In the 1990s, FDG-PET revolutionized nuclear medicine by using a radioactive glucose analogue to detect cancer cells, becoming the standard for detecting cancer. In the early 2000s, hybrid imaging techniques like PET/CT, SPECT/CT, and PET/MRI further advanced the field, combining different technologies to improve patient care and detection of abnormalities.
Nuclear imaging is entering a new era called theranostics, combining cancer diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment. This approach utilizes new radiopharmaceuticals that specifically bind to and destroy tumor cells, targeting difficult-to-treat cancers like gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
I invite researchers to address this topic, providing insightful findings on the known and new applications of nuclear medicine in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Michele Klain
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- PET/CT
- imaging
- nuclear medicine
- cancer diagnosis
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