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ReviewFrontiers in chemistry2014

Molecular imaging of breast cancer: present and future directions.

David Alcantara, Manuel Pernia Leal, Irene García-Bocanegra, Maria L García-Martín

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Review in Frontiers in chemistry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Potential of [Pharmaceutics · 2022
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  5. HomodimerMedical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2022
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  10. International journal of nanomedicine · 2021
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  11. HybridCancers · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David AlcantaraLaboratory of Metabolomics and Molecular Imaging, BIONAND, Centro Andaluz de Nanomedicina y Biotecnología (Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga) Malaga, Spain.
Manuel Pernia LealLaboratory of Metabolomics and Molecular Imaging, BIONAND, Centro Andaluz de Nanomedicina y Biotecnología (Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga) Malaga, Spain.
Irene García-BocanegraLaboratory of Metabolomics and Molecular Imaging, BIONAND, Centro Andaluz de Nanomedicina y Biotecnología (Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga) Malaga, Spain.
Maria L García-MartínLaboratory of Metabolomics and Molecular Imaging, BIONAND, Centro Andaluz de Nanomedicina y Biotecnología (Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga) Malaga, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical imaging technologies have undergone explosive growth over the past few decades and now play a central role in clinical oncology. But the truly transformative power of imaging in the clinical management of cancer patients lies ahead. Today, imaging is at a crossroads, with molecularly targeted imaging agents expected to broadly expand the capabilities of conventional anatomical imaging methods. Molecular imaging will allow clinicians to not only see where a tumor is located in the body, but also to visualize the expression and activity of specific molecules (e.g., proteases and protein kinases) and biological processes (e.g., apoptosis, angiogenesis, and metastasis) that influence tumor behavior and/or response to therapy. Breast cancer, the most common cancer among women and a research area where our group is actively involved, is a very heterogeneous disease with diverse patterns of development and response to treatment. Hence, molecular imaging is expected to have a major impact on this type of cancer, leading to important improvements in diagnosis, individualized treatment, and drug development, as well as our understanding of how breast cancer arises.

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breast cancerbreast cancer diagnosisbreast imaging techniquesbreast magnetic resonance imagingcontrast agentsmolecular imaging of breast

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PMID25566530
PMCPMC4270251

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