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ReviewBiomedicines2024

Affibody PET Imaging of HER2-Expressing Cancers as a Key to Guide HER2-Targeted Therapy.

Nina Eissler, Renske Altena, Ali Alhuseinalkhudhur, Olga Bragina, Joachim Feldwisch, Guido Wuerth, Annika Loftenius, Nikolai Brun, Rimma Axelsson, Vladimir Tolmachev and 2 more

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing 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.

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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Imaging of ROR1 expression in tumors using radiolabeled affibody molecules.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2026
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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.

Nina EisslerAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.
Renske AltenaDepartment of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, 17164 Solna, Sweden.
Ali AlhuseinalkhudhurNuclear Medicine and PET, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 75310 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1146-0534
Olga BraginaDepartment of Nuclear Therapy and Diagnostic, Cancer Research Institute, Tomsk National Research Medical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 634055 Tomsk, Russia.
Joachim FeldwischAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.
Guido WuerthAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.
Annika LofteniusAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.
Nikolai BrunAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.
Rimma AxelssonMedical Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine, Functional Unit of Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, 14157 Huddinge, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4702-1020
Vladimir TolmachevDepartment of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, 75310 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6122-1734
Jens SörensenNuclear Medicine and PET, Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, 75310 Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5738-9983
Fredrik Y FrejdAffibody AB, 17165 Solna, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6421-4142

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a major prognostic and predictive marker overexpressed in 15-20% of breast cancers. The diagnostic reference standard for selecting patients for HER2-targeted therapy is based on the analysis of tumor biopsies. Previously patients were defined as HER2-positive or -negative; however, with the approval of novel treatment options, specifically the antibody-drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan, many breast cancer patients with tumors expressing low levels of HER2 have become eligible for HER2-targeted therapy. Such patients will need to be reliably identified by suitable diagnostic methods. Biopsy-based diagnostics are invasive, and repeat biopsies are not always feasible. They cannot visualize the heterogeneity of HER2 expression, leading to a substantial number of misdiagnosed patients. An alternative and highly accurate diagnostic method is molecular imaging with radiotracers. In the case of HER2, various studies demonstrate the clinical utility and feasibility of such approaches. Radiotracers based on Affibody

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Affibody moleculesbreast cancerclinical trialsdiagnosticsHER2molecular imaging

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PMID38791050
PMCPMC11118066

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