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ReviewCancers2019

Recent Advances in Nuclear Imaging of Receptor Expression to Guide Targeted Therapies in Breast Cancer.

Barbara Salvatore, Maria Grazia Caprio, Billy Samuel Hill, Annachiara Sarnella, Giovanni Nicola Roviello, Antonella Zannetti

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Review in Cancers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Barbara SalvatoreIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. barbara.salvatore@cnr.it.
Maria Grazia CaprioIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. mariagrazia.caprio@ibb.cnr.it.
Billy Samuel HillIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. billy.hill@ibb.cnr.it.
Annachiara SarnellaIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. achiara.sarnella@gmail.com.
Giovanni Nicola RovielloIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. giroviel@unina.it.
Antonella ZannettiIstituto di Biostrutture e Bioimmagini-CNR, 80145 Naples, Italy. antonella.zannetti@cnr.it.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer remains the most frequent cancer in women with different patterns of disease progression and response to treatments. The identification of specific biomarkers for different breast cancer subtypes has allowed the development of novel targeting agents for imaging and therapy. To date, patient management depends on immunohistochemistry analysis of receptor status on bioptic samples. This approach is too invasive, and in some cases, not entirely representative of the disease. Nuclear imaging using receptor tracers may provide whole-body information and detect any changes of receptor expression during disease progression. Therefore, imaging is useful to guide clinicians to select the best treatments for each patient and to evaluate early response thus reducing unnecessary therapies. In this review, we focused on the development of novel tracers that are ongoing in preclinical and/or clinical studies as promising tools to lead treatment decisions for breast cancer management.

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breast cancermolecular imagingreceptor status

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PMID31652624
PMCPMC6826563

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