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ReviewJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2021

Dosimetry in Clinical Radiopharmaceutical Therapy of Cancer: Practicality Versus Perfection in Current Practice.

Neeta Pandit-Taskar, Amir Iravani, Dan Lee, Heather Jacene, Dan Pryma, Thomas Hope, Babak Saboury, Jacek Capala, Richard L Wahl

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. SPECT at the speed of PET: a feasibility study of CZT-based whole-body SPECT/CT in the postEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2023
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  19. A Primer on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy.International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics · 2023
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  20. Developments inFrontiers in chemistry · 2023
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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

9 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Neeta Pandit-TaskarMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; pandit-n@mskcc.org.
Amir IravaniWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dan LeeOchsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Heather JaceneDana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dan PrymaPenn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Thomas HopeUniversity of San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and.
Babak SabouryNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Jacek CapalaNational Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Richard L WahlWashington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
National Institutes of Health · USWashington University in St. Louis · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USOchsner Medical Center · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs) in the treatment of cancers is growing rapidly, with more agents becoming available for clinical use in last few years and many new RPTs being in development. Dosimetry assessment is critical for personalized RPT, insofar as administered activity should be assessed and optimized in order to maximize tumor-absorbed dose while keeping normal organs within defined safe dosages. However, many current clinical RPTs do not require patient-specific dosimetry based on current Food and Drug Administration-labeled approvals, and overall, dosimetry for RPT in clinical practice and trials is highly varied and underutilized. Several factors impede rigorous use of dosimetry, as compared with the more convenient and less resource-intensive practice of empiric dosing. We review various approaches to applying dosimetry for the assessment of activity in RPT and key clinical trials, the extent of dosimetry use, the relative pros and cons of dosimetry-based versus fixed activity, and practical limiting factors pertaining to current clinical practice.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsRadiometryRadiopharmaceuticalsHumansRadiopharmaceuticalsdosimetryradionuclideradiopharmaceutical therapyRPTtheranostics

Identifiers

PMID34857623
PMCPMC12079725
OpenAlexW3215050530

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Registered trials

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