Treatment Response Assessment
Physical examination and conventional imaging techniques still have an important place in the evaluation of breast cancer treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. At this time, this morphologic evaluation is the only one recognized by the international criteria. The new functional and metabolic imaging modalities, particularly MRI and PET scan, can approach the nature of residual tumour, allow early detection of bad responders and depict multifocal tumours and metastases.
- Using PET/CT Imaging, UCLA Cancer Researchers Can Tell After A Single Cycle Of Chemotherapy Whether Drugs Are Working
- MRI accurately detects residual breast tumors after radiofrequency ablation
- water diffusion MRI — a potential new biomarker of response to cancer therapy
- CK18 biomarkers are useful for early prediction of the response to CEF therapy in breast cancer and may be useful biomarkers for clinical trials.
- 3T MRI depicted a significantly higher number of malignant tumors of the breast than mammography and sonography
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