PET/CT in Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging

by Mohsen Beheshti
PET/CT in Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging
Author: Mohsen Beheshti
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323496083
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Edited, authored, and reviewed by an expert team of oncologists and nuclear physicians/radiologists, this one-of-a-kind title helps you make the most of the critical role PET/CT plays in cancer staging and therapeutic responses to individualized treatments. Drs. Mohsen Beheshti, Werner Langsteger, and Alireza Rezaee place an emphasis on cutting-edge research and evidence-based practice, ensuring that you're up to date with every aspect of this fast-changing field. For each tumor entity, you'll find authoritative discussions of background, pathology, common pattern of spread, TNM classification, clinical guidelines, discussion, evidence-based recommendations, key points, and pitfalls. - Contains 130 teaching cases with high-quality PET/CT images. - Presents clear, practical guidance from multiple experts across subspecialties: nuclear medicine, oncology, oncologic surgery, radiation oncology, and clinical research. - Includes separate, comprehensive chapters on head and neck, lung, breast, esophageal/gastric, pancreas/neuroendocrine, colorectal, hepatobiliary, lymphoma, gynecologic, prostate, melanoma, and brain cancers. - Features short reviews of clinical aspects of different cancers, primary diagnostic procedures, and recommendations regarding PET/CT from ESMO and NCCN. - Helps to reveal positive outcomes or potential deficits or weaknesses in an individual plan of care, allowing for better outcomes in patient care, future cancer research, and application of radiotracers beyond 18F-FDG.

PET/CT in Cancer: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging

by Mohsen Beheshti
PET/CT in Cancer: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging
Author: Mohsen Beheshti
Publisher: Saunders
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780323485678
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Case 2: Assessment of Lymph Node Metastases -- Findings -- Teaching points -- Case 3: Extensive Distant Metastases -- Case 4: Inflammatory Breast Cancer -- Case 5: Staging, FDG Versus 18F-NaF PET/CT -- Case 6: Breast Cancer During Breast-feeding -- Case 7: Contralateral Axillary Lymph Node Involvement -- Case 8: Breast Cancer-Pitfall -- Case 9: Staging-FDG Versus NaF PET/CT -- Case 10: Therapy Monitoring -- Case 11: Staging-Bone Seeking Agents (NaF PET/CT Versus Conventional 99mTc-MDP Bone Scan) -- Case 12: Breast Cancer and Silicone Implant -- REFERENCES -- 4 - Gastroesophageal Cancer -- GASTRIC CANCER -- General1,2 -- Early clinical symptoms2,3 -- Primary diagnostic procedures4,5 -- Standard treatment6 -- Five-Year Survival7 -- Prognostic factors2 -- Tumor Characteristics and Typical Behavior -- Distribution and localization -- T-primary8 -- N-lymph nodes9 -- M-distant metastasis2 -- TNM Classification10 -- Guidelines10,11 -- Evidence-Based Viewpoints -- Cost-Effectiveness -- Clinical Point of View -- False negative -- Discussion -- Staging -- Therapy monitoring and prognostic value -- Radiotracers beyond FDG -- ESOPHAGEAL CANCER -- Early clinical symptoms51 -- Primary diagnostic procedure51,52 -- Standard treatment53,54 -- Prognostic factors55 -- Five-year survival56,57 -- Histopathology (worldwide)58 -- Distribution and localization -- T-primary59 -- N-lymph nodes60 -- M-distant metastasis60 -- TNM Classification61 -- Guidelines61,62 -- Evidence-Based Viewpoints -- Cost-Effectiveness -- Clinical Points of View -- Case 1: Staging esophageal cancer -- Case 2: Treatment monitoring -- Case 3: Recurrent gastric cancer -- Case 4: Staging signet ring cell cancer -- Case 5: N-staging, esophageal cancer -- Case 6: Staging, upper thoracic esophageal cancer -- Case 7: Staging gastric cancer -- Case 8: Treatment monitoring

Epidemiology of Endocrine Tumors

by Jahangir Moini
Epidemiology of Endocrine Tumors
Author: Jahangir Moini
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2021-03-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0128232668
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Epidemiology of Endocrine Tumors brings current data and clinical research into one source for a multidisciplinary audience. The book discusses the prevalence, incidence, etiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of various endocrine tumors. With clear and focused writing, it is essential reading for healthcare professionals, endocrinologists, oncologists, and public health professionals. Users will be able to bridge the knowledge gap that exists in the comprehensive coverage surrounding the epidemiology of endocrine tumors. Globally, the prevalence and incidence of endocrine tumors is high. This audience needs a treatise where they can gain a broad overview of endocrine tumors with a focus on epidemiology. - Supplies information about the epidemiology of various endocrine tumors, both benign and malignant, to endocrinologists, oncologists and related health care professionals - Focuses on the impact upon costs and patient deaths due to complications of these tumors - Describes how endocrine tumors affect various age groups and ethnicities, discussing the prevention of endocrine tumors - Presents chapters on Cancer Problem, Specific Endocrine Tumors, Prevention, Detection and Diagnosis, and Treatment of Endocrine Tumors - Provides review questions with an answer key and detailed glossary

Nanomedicines for Breast Cancer Theranostics

by Nanasaheb D. Thorat
Nanomedicines for Breast Cancer Theranostics
Author: Nanasaheb D. Thorat
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2020-03-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128200170
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Nanomedicines for Breast Cancer Theranostics addresses the translational aspects and clinical perspectives of breast cancer nanomedicine from a multidisciplinary perspective. The book summarizes research efforts at the preclinical and clinical stage of nanostructures and nanomedicine for dealing with the important challenge of nanomedicine translation in breast cancer theranostics. This book is an important resource for those working in both academia and industry, focusing on hot topics in biomaterials, biomedical engineering, drug delivery and oncology. - Shows how the discovery of new nanomedicines is leading directly to an increase in the early-stage diagnosis of breast cancer - Includes coverage of breast cancer nanomedicine standardization and characterization, highlighting newly developed treatments, diagnostics and treatment monitoring tools - Explains why the design of nanobiomaterials make them effective drug carriers when treating breast cancer

Clinical PET/MRI

by Onofrio Antonio Catalano
Clinical PET/MRI
Author: Onofrio Antonio Catalano
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022-09-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0323885381
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Clinical PET/MR presents the state-of-the-art of PET/MR, guiding the reader from how to scan patients, how to read and report the studies, and how keep an eye on what is clinically relevant for a patient's care. Each chapter starts with the clinical scenario and then moves to pertinent imaging, addressing the need of a clinical PET/MR book written by world experts in both clinical and imaging fields. It discusses the clinical application of PET/MR in diverse subspecialties such as head and neck, neurology, cardiovascular, pediatrics, chest, bone, hematology, breast, hepatobiliary pancreatic, genitourinary, gynecology, and gastrointestinal tract. This book is a valuable resource for radiologists, oncologists and members of the biomedical field who need to learn more about clinical applications of PET/MR. - Presents a description of robust acquisition protocols to teach readers how to scan PET/MR patients, from tracers to sequences - Provides a clinical background section in each chapter to help readers focus on the real clinical issues that need to be addressed in the medical report - Written by world authorities in the field in a didactic manner to describe the real status of imaging

Advancing Nuclear Medicine Through Innovation

by National Research Council
Advancing Nuclear Medicine Through Innovation
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2007-09-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309134153
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Nearly 20 million nuclear medicine procedures are carried out each year in the United States alone to diagnose and treat cancers, cardiovascular disease, and certain neurological disorders. Many of the advancements in nuclear medicine have been the result of research investments made during the past 50 years where these procedures are now a routine part of clinical care. Although nuclear medicine plays an important role in biomedical research and disease management, its promise is only beginning to be realized. Advancing Nuclear Medicine Through Innovation highlights the exciting emerging opportunities in nuclear medicine, which include assessing the efficacy of new drugs in development, individualizing treatment to the patient, and understanding the biology of human diseases. Health care and pharmaceutical professionals will be most interested in this book's examination of the challenges the field faces and its recommendations for ways to reduce these impediments.

Image-Guided Interventions in Oncology

by Christos Georgiades
Image-Guided Interventions in Oncology
Author: Christos Georgiades
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030487679
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This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive primer on image-guided interventions for cancer. Image-guided interventional oncology is gaining popularity as it is a minimally invasive and more precisely targeted approach that both proves more effective and results in fewer side effects. This book’s aim is to provide a clinical guide to interventional oncology for the entire oncology team. Chapters are approached with the same interdisciplinary perspective that is used in the care itself, with each chapter written by an interventional radiologist with contributions from medical, surgical and/or radiation oncologists. Chapters cover the major cancers that can benefit from interventional oncology treatment (including lung, liver, kidney, and bone), as well as some of the physics and physiology behind these interventional modalities. This is an ideal guide for interventional radiologists, medical oncologists, surgical oncologists, radiation oncologists, as well as relevant trainees.

Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT E-Book

by Gary A. Ulaner
Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT E-Book
Author: Gary A. Ulaner
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-06-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 032356867X
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In the fast-changing age of precision medicine, PET/CT is increasingly important for accurate cancer staging and evaluation of treatment response. Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT, by Dr. Gary A. Ulaner, offers an organized, systematic introduction to reading and interpreting PET/CT studies, ideal for radiology and nuclear medicine residents, practicing radiologists, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists. Synthesizing eight years' worth of cases and lectures from one of the largest cancer centers in the world, this title provides a real-world, practical approach, taking you through the body organ by organ as it explains how to integrate both the FDG PET and CT findings to best interpret each lesion. - Based on the Annual Oncologic PET/CT Continuing Education Course founded and directed by Dr. Ulaner. - Provides step-by-step guidance on how to interpret PET/CT images for patients with cancer. - Uses a unique, highly practical format, presenting common and uncommon findings for each organ system, and then explaining how to best arrive at a diagnosis for those findings. - Describes how to integrate PET findings with CT, MR, ultrasound, and radiography, to increase specificity of PET findings. - Features more than 1,000 high-quality PET, CT, and correlative radiographic images, with over 600 in full color. - Discusses how to avoid common interpretive pitfalls. - Demonstrates how to organize an FDG PET/CT report efficiently and concisely. - Includes a separate chapter on novel radiotracers – including Sodium Fluoride, DOTATATE, Choline, Fluciclovine, and PSMA targeting agents. - Expert ConsultTM eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.