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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023

Brain glucose metabolism on [18F]-FDG PET/CT: a dynamic biomarker predicting depression and anxiety in cancer patients.

Xue Yang, Guangxia Yang, Ruojun Wang, Yanjuan Wang, Shengyi Zhang, Jian Wang, Chunjing Yu, Zeqin Ren

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Xue YangDepartment of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Guangxia YangDepartment of Rheumatology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Ruojun WangDepartment of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Yanjuan WangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Shengyi ZhangDepartment of Neurology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Jian WangDepartment of Orthopaedics, The Ninth People's Hospital of Wuxi, Affiliated to Suzhou University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Chunjing YuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Zeqin RenDepartment of Rehabilitation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dali University, Dali, Yunnan, China.
Jiangnan University · CNWuxi Fourth People's Hospital · CNDali University · CNSoochow University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: To explore the correlation between the incidence rates of depression and anxiety and cerebral glucose metabolism in cancer patients. Methods: The experiment subjects consisted of patients with lung cancer, head and neck tumor, stomach cancer, intestinal cancer, breast cancer and healthy individuals. A total of 240 tumor patients and 39 healthy individuals were included. All subjects were evaluated by the Hamilton depression scale (HAMD) and Manifest anxiety scale (MAS), and were examined by whole body Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). Demographic, baseline clinical characteristics, brain glucose metabolic changes, emotional disorder scores and their relations were statistically analyzed. Results: The incidence rates of depression and anxiety in patients with lung cancer were higher than those in patients with other tumors, and Standard uptake values (SUVs) and metabolic volume in bilateral frontal lobe, bilateral temporal lobe, bilateral caudate nucleus, bilateral hippocampus, left cingulate gyrus were lower than those in patients with other tumors. We also found that poor pathological differentiation, and advanced TNM stage independently associated with depression and anxiety risk. SUVs in the bilateral frontal lobe, bilateral temporal lobe, bilateral caudate nucleus, bilateral hippocampus, left cingulate gyrus were negatively correlated with HAMD and MAS scores. Conclusion: This study revealed the correlation between brain glucose metabolism and emotional disorders in cancer patients. The changes in brain glucose metabolism were expected to play a major role in emotional disorders in cancer patients as psychobiological markers. These findings indicated that functional imaging can be applied for psychological assessment of cancer patients as an innovative method.

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anxiety disordercancerdepressionglucose metabolismpositron emission

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