Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Diagnosis

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".

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Interests: nuclear-based molecular imaging techniques including PET, SPECT, and PET-MRI; image quantification; immunological-based imaging agents for diagnosis of infection and cancer; radiopharmaceuticals for cancer diagnosis and therapy; radiomics
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Radiopharmaceuticals for Cancer Diagnosis”, will provide a timely update on radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosing and characterizing various cancers using positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). These radiopharmaceuticals are molecular imaging tools that are critical to the diagnosis and staging of cancers, as well as in selecting patients for various therapies and monitoring their outcomes.

Significant advances in radiochemistry and radiopharmaceutical production have allowed for wider adoption of nuclear-based molecular imaging techniques, such as PET and SPECT. Recently, new cancer-targeting diagnostic and “theranostic” radiopharmaceuticals have become commercially available. There are several others in the regulatory approval pipeline.

This Special Issue will specifically explore novel radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis or characterization of various cancers, new applications for well-characterized radiopharmaceuticals, new radiochemistry methodologies, and novel strategies in quantitative molecular imaging of radiopharmaceuticals, as applied to cancer.

Submissions contributing to the understanding of the use of radiopharmaceuticals in the diagnosis or characterization of cancer, through basic science, pre-clinical, and clinical studies are cordially invited.

Both original manuscripts and reviews will be considered.

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Franc
Dr. Krishan Kumar
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Keywords

  • Cancer imaging
  • Radiochemistry
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Positron emission tomography (PET)
  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
  • Theranostics
  • Immuno-PET
  • Antibody imaging

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Review of Gallium-68 PSMA PET/CT Imaging in the Management of Prostate Cancer
by Nat P. Lenzo, Danielle Meyrick and J. Harvey Turner
Diagnostics 2018, 8(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics8010016 - 11 Feb 2018
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Over 90% of prostate cancers over-express prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and these tumor cells may be accurately targeted for diagnosis by 68Ga-PSMA-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT) imaging. This novel molecular imaging modality appears clinically to have superseded CT, and [...] Read more.
Over 90% of prostate cancers over-express prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and these tumor cells may be accurately targeted for diagnosis by 68Ga-PSMA-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT) imaging. This novel molecular imaging modality appears clinically to have superseded CT, and appears superior to MR imaging, for the detection of metastatic disease. 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT has the ability to reliably stage prostate cancer at presentation and can help inform an optimal treatment approach. Novel diagnostic applications of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT include guiding biopsy to improve sampling accuracy, and guiding surgery and radiotherapy. In addition to facilitating the management of metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), 68Ga-PSMA can select patients who may benefit from targeted systemic radionuclide therapy. 68Ga-PSMA is the diagnostic positron-emitting theranostic pair with the beta emitter Lutetium-177 PSMA (177Lu-PSMA) and alpha-emitter Actinium-225 PSMA (225Ac-PSMA) which can both be used to treat PSMA-avid metastases of prostate cancer in the molecular tumor-targeted approach of theranostic nuclear oncology. Full article
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