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ReviewCancers2025

A Look to the Future: Potential Theranostic Applications in Head and Neck Tumors.

Jorge D Oldan, Lilja B Solnes, Bennett B Chin, Steven P Rowe

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Radiotheranostics in veterinary oncology.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jorge D OldanMolecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8979-2010
Lilja B SolnesThe Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Bennett B ChinDepartment of Radiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Boulder, CO 80045, USA.
Steven P RoweMolecular Imaging and Therapeutics, Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theranostics, the practice of using a diagnostic radiopharmaceutical to guide radiotherapy with a chemically identical (or nearly identical) therapeutic radiopharmaceutical, is an exciting new field under development within the auspices of nuclear medicine. We aim to provide a narrative review of the areas of theranostics use and development which are occurring specifically in the head and neck, with attention to the therapeutic use of existing diagnostically used radiotracers such as agents that target prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and somatostatin receptors (e.g., DOTATATE derivatives), as well as developing classes of radiotracers such as those targeting fibrinogen-activating protein (FAP) and carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX), as well as new

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CAIXDOTATATEFAPhead and neckPETPSMAtheranostics

Identifiers

PMID40002288
PMCPMC11854056

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