Prognostic impact of [18F]fluorothymidine and [18F]fluoro-D-glucose baseline uptakes in patients with lung cancer treated first-line with erlotinib.

3'-deoxy-3'-[(18)F]fluoro-L-thymidine (FLT) and 2'-deoxy-2'-[(18)F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) are used to visualize proliferative and metabolic activity of tumors. In this study we aimed at evaluating the prognostic value of FLT and FDG uptake measured by positron emission tomography...

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Main Authors: Matthias Scheffler, Thomas Zander, Lucia Nogova, Carsten Kobe, Deniz Kahraman, Markus Dietlein, Irini Papachristou, Lukas Heukamp, Reinhard Büttner, Ron Boellaard, Adriaan A Lammertsma, Silvia Querings, Erich Stoelben, Walburga Engel-Riedel, Bernd Neumaier, Jürgen Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3537767?pdf=render