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ArticleNeuro-oncology2022

Investigational PET tracers in neuro-oncology-What's on the horizon? A report of the PET/RANO group.

Norbert Galldiks, Karl-Josef Langen, Nathalie L Albert, Ian Law, Michelle M Kim, Javier E Villanueva-Meyer, Riccardo Soffietti, Patrick Y Wen, Michael Weller, Joerg C Tonn

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Article in Neuro-oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

10 authors.

Norbert GalldiksDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Kerpener St. 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2485-1796
Karl-Josef LangenInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3, -4), Research Center Juelich, Juelich, Germany.
Nathalie L AlbertDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Ian LawDepartment of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michelle M KimDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Javier E Villanueva-MeyerDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Riccardo SoffiettiDepartment of Neuro-Oncology, University and City of Health and Science Hospital, Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9204-7038
Patrick Y WenCenter for Neuro-Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Michael WellerDepartment of Neurology, Clinical Neuroscience Center University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1748-174X
Joerg C TonnDepartment of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many studies in patients with brain tumors evaluating innovative PET tracers have been published in recent years, and the initial results are promising. Here, the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) PET working group provides an overview of the literature on novel investigational PET tracers for brain tumor patients. Furthermore, newer indications of more established PET tracers for the evaluation of glucose metabolism, amino acid transport, hypoxia, cell proliferation, and others are also discussed. Based on the preliminary findings, these novel investigational PET tracers should be further evaluated considering their promising potential. In particular, novel PET probes for imaging of translocator protein and somatostatin receptor overexpression as well as for immune system reactions appear to be of additional clinical value for tumor delineation and therapy monitoring. Progress in developing these radiotracers may contribute to improving brain tumor diagnostics and advancing clinical translational research.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsHumansPositron-Emission TomographyRadiopharmaceuticalsfluciclovineImmuno-PETPSMAsomatostatinTSPO

Identifiers

PMID35674736
PMCPMC9629449

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