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ReviewCureus2022

Changing Role of PET/CT in Cancer Care With a Focus on Radiotherapy.

Srinivasan Vijayakumar, Johnny Yang, Mary R Nittala, Alexander E Velazquez, Brandon L Huddleston, Nickhil A Rugnath, Neha Adari, Abhay K Yajurvedi, Abhinav Komanduri, Claus Chunli Yang and 4 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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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

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. An integrated PET/CT simulation framework for virtual imaging trials and quantitative performance evaluation.Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) · 2026
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  4. Tumor Characterization Using [Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Article
  5. Improved Radiosynthesis of [ACS infectious diseases · 2025
    Article
  6. Integration of Circulating Tumor DNA and Metabolic Parameters onAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  7. Review
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  13. Impact of Teleradiology on Oncological Interpretation of PET-CT Scans.Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Srinivasan VijayakumarRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Johnny YangRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Mary R NittalaRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Alexander E VelazquezRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Brandon L HuddlestonRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Nickhil A RugnathRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Neha AdariRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Abhay K YajurvediRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Abhinav KomanduriRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Claus Chunli YangRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
William N DuggarRadiation Oncology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
William P BerlinRadiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Richard DuszakRadiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.
Vani VijayakumarRadiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) integrated with computed tomography (CT) has brought revolutionary changes in improving cancer care (CC) for patients. These include improved detection of previously unrecognizable disease, ability to identify oligometastatic status enabling more aggressive treatment strategies when the disease burden is lower, its use in better defining treatment targets in radiotherapy (RT), ability to monitor treatment responses early and thus improve the ability for early interventions of non-responding tumors, and as a prognosticating tool as well as outcome predicting tool. PET/CT has enabled the emergence of new concepts such as radiobiotherapy (RBT), radioimmunotherapy, theranostics, and pharmaco-radiotherapy. This is a rapidly evolving field, and this primer is to help summarize the current status and to give an impetus to developing new ideas, clinical trials, and CC outcome improvements.

Indexed as

cancer carepositron emission tomography computed tomographyprecision radionuclide therapyradiotherapy (rt)theranostics

Identifiers

PMID36694538
PMCPMC9867792

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