ReviewCancers2021
PET/MRI for Staging the Axilla in Breast Cancer: Current Evidence and the Rationale for SNB vs. PET/MRI Trials.
Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- [Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026Trial
- Hybrid [Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of modern imaging following neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer: a comparative analysis of ultrasound versus [18F] FDG PET/MRI in breast response assessment.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Prognostic value of molecular and radiologic characteristics on dedicated breast [EJNMMI research · 2025Article
- Baseline [European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2024Article
- PET/MRI and Novel Targets for Breast Cancer.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Bone Metastases Detection in Patients with Breast Cancer: Does Bone Scintigraphy Add Information to PET/CT?The oncologist · 2023Article
- Prospective validation of 18F-Fluoroethylcholine as a tracer in PET/MRI for the evaluation of breast lesions and prediction of lymph node status.La Radiologia medica · 2023Article
- Breast PET/MRI Hybrid Imaging and Targeted Tracers.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2023Review
- Overview of Artificial Intelligence in Breast Cancer Medical Imaging.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Radiogenomics, Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Characterization: Current Status and Future Directions.Methods and protocols · 2022Review
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Abstract
Axillary surgery in breast cancer (BC) is no longer a therapeutic procedure but has become a purely staging procedure. The progressive improvement in imaging techniques has paved the way to the hypothesis that prognostic information on nodal status deriving from surgery could be obtained with an accurate diagnostic exam. Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) is a relatively new imaging tool and its role in breast cancer patients is still under investigation. We reviewed the available literature on PET/MRI in BC patients. This overview showed that PET/MRI yields a high diagnostic performance for the primary tumor and distant lesions of liver, brain and bone. In particular, the results of PET/MRI in staging the axilla are promising. This provided the rationale for two prospective comparative trials between axillary surgery and PET/MRI that could lead to a further de-escalation of surgical treatment of BC. • SNB vs. PET/MRI 1 trial compares PET/MRI and axillary surgery in staging the axilla of BC patients undergoing primary systemic therapy (PST). • SNB vs. PET/MRI 2 trial compares PET/MRI and sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in staging the axilla of early BC patients who are candidates for upfront surgery. Finally, these ongoing studies will help clarify the role of PET/MRI in BC and establish whether it represents a useful diagnostic tool that could guide, or ideally replace, axillary surgery in the future.
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