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ReviewEuropean radiology experimental2020

PET/CT imaging for tumour response assessment to immunotherapy: current status and future directions.

Marcus Unterrainer, Michael Ruzicka, Matthias P Fabritius, Lena M Mittlmeier, Michael Winkelmann, Johannes Rübenthaler, Matthias Brendel, Marion Subklewe, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Jens Ricke and 2 more

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Review in European radiology experimental, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Diagnostic impact ofClinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2022
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  17. Anti-PD-1: When to Stop Treatment.Current oncology reports · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Marcus UnterrainerDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany. marcus.unterrainer@med.uni-muenchen.de.
Michael RuzickaDepartment of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Matthias P FabritiusDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Lena M MittlmeierDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Michael WinkelmannDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Johannes RübenthalerDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Matthias BrendelDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Marion SubkleweDepartment of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Michael von Bergwelt-BaildonDepartment of Medicine III, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Jens RickeDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Wolfgang G KunzDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Clemens C CyranDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377, Munich, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent immunotherapeutic approaches have evolved as powerful treatment options with high anti-tumour responses involving the patient's own immune system. Passive immunotherapy applies agents that enhance existing anti-tumour responses, such as antibodies against immune checkpoints. Active immunotherapy uses agents that direct the immune system to attack tumour cells by targeting tumour antigens. Active cellular-based therapies are on the rise, most notably chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, which redirects patient-derived T cells against tumour antigens. Approved treatments are available for a variety of solid malignancies including melanoma, lung cancer and haematologic diseases. These novel immune-related therapeutic approaches can be accompanied by new patterns of response and progression and immune-related side-effects that challenge established imaging-based response assessment criteria, such as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid tumours (RECIST) 1.1. Hence, new criteria have been developed. Beyond morphological information of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography (PET) emerges as a comprehensive imaging modality by assessing (patho-)physiological processes such as glucose metabolism, which enables more comprehensive response assessment in oncological patients. We review the current concepts of response assessment to immunotherapy with particular emphasis on hybrid imaging with

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Positron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyForecastingHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsResponse Evaluation Criteria in Solid TumorsAntigens (neoplasm)Fluorodeoxyglucose F18ImmunotherapyPositron emission tomography computed tomographyReceptors (chimeric antigen)

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PMCPMC7669926

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