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ArticleAsia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology2025

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Mai Amr Elahmadawy, Heba Abdelhamed, Dina Hosny Gamal El-Din, Mahitab Eltohamy, Adel Mohamed Ismail Hassan, Salwa Abd El-Gaid

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Article in Asia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Mai Amr ElahmadawyNuclear Medicine Unit, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Heba AbdelhamedClinical oncology and nuclear medicine department, Zagazig University, Zagazig Egypt.
Dina Hosny Gamal El-DinRadiology department , Kasr Al Aini medical school, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mahitab EltohamyPathology department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Adel Mohamed Ismail HassanSurgical Oncology department, Ismailia teaching oncology hospital, Ismailia, Egypt.
Salwa Abd El-GaidNuclear Medicine Unit, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: to investigate the capability of Methods: retrospective study enrolled 47 female patients with breast cancer. All patients had pretreatment [ Results: No statistically significant difference was noted among both groups (HER2 positive and negative) in respect to age, menopausal status, histology, grade, T-stage, N-stage, or antigen Kiel 67 (Ki-67) index. ROC curve successfully marked cutoff point ≥42.35 for total lesion glycolysis (TLG) and  12.75 for metabolic tumor value (MTV) that are capable to discriminate positive versus negative HER2 expression in breast cancer patients with area under curve (AUC) 0.728 and 0.723 and P-values 0.002 and 0.004 respectively. Such cutoff point was not deduced for standard uptake value (SUV) max. Primary tumor TLG cutoff correlated well with age where 77.8% of patients with TLG  42.35 were older than 45 years old compared to 22.2% of them who were younger than 45 years, P-value0.047. Also 70.3% of patients with TLG exceeds  42.35 had T3 and 4 primary tumors while 65% of those with TLG <42.35 their primary tumors were T1 and 2, P-value0.03. As regards Primary tumor MTV cutoff point, significant correlations were noted in respect to T-stage where 78.2% of the patients with primary tumor MTV  12.75 were T3 and 4, compared to 66.6% of those with primary tumor MTV <12.75 were T1 and 2, P-value0.011. Conclusion: PET-derived volumetrics may serve as non-invasive predictors of biological processes represented here as HER2 expression in breast cancer patients.

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Breast cancerHER2PET/CT

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PMID39744060
PMCPMC11682474

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