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Imaging of Gastric Cancer Metabolism Using 18 F-FDG PET/CT.

Authors
 Mijin Yun 
Citation
 JOURNAL OF GASTRIC CANCER, Vol.14(1) : 1-6, 2014 
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF GASTRIC CANCER
ISSN
 2093-582X 
Issue Date
2014
Keywords
Fluorodeoxyglucose ; Glycolysis ; Metabolism ; Positron emission tomography/computed tomography ; Stomach neoplasms
Abstract
Aerobic glycolysis has been the most important hypothesis in cancer metabolism. It seems to be related to increased bioenergetic and biosynthetic needs in rapidly proliferating cancer cells. To this end, F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a glucose analog, became widely popular for the detection of malignancies combined with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Although the potential roles of FDG PET/CT in primary tumor detection are not fully established, it seems to have a limited sensitivity in detecting early gastric cancer and mainly signet ring or non-solid types of advanced gastric cancer. In evaluating lymph node metastases, the location of lymph nodes and the degree of FDG uptake in primary tumors appear to be important factors affecting the diagnostic accuracy of PET/CT. In spite of the limited sensitivity, the high specificity of PET/CT for lymph node metastases may play an important role in changing the extent of lymphadenectomy or reducing futile laparotomies. For peritoneal metastases, PET/CT seems to have a poorer sensitivity but a better specificity than CT. The roles of PET/CT in the evaluation of other distant metastases are yet to be known. Studies including primary tumors with low FDG uptake or peritoneal recurrence seem suffer from poorer diagnostic performance for the detection of recurrent gastric cancer. There are only a few reports using FDG PET/CT to predict response to neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy. A complete metabolic response seems to be predictive of more favorable prognosis.
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DOI
10.5230/jgc.2014.14.1.1
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Nuclear Medicine (핵의학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Yun, Mi Jin(윤미진) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1712-163X
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/139085
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