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18F-FDG PET/CT in Lymphoma: Has Imaging-Directed Personalized Medicine Become a Reality?


ABSTRACT: PET/CT using 18F-FDG is an essential part of the management of patients with lymphoma. Efforts to standardize PET acquisition and reporting, including the 5-point Deauville scale, have enabled PET to become a surrogate for treatment success or failure in common lymphoma subtypes. This review summarizes the key clinical-trial evidence that supports PET-directed personalized approaches in lymphoma. PET-guided therapy has improved outcomes in Hodgkin lymphoma, using less chemotherapy and more selective radiotherapy. Attempts to intensify chemotherapy in aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas have, however, proved ineffective in patients treated with rituximab and chemotherapy. Trials are under way to determine whether PET can obviate consolidation radiotherapy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. More recently, PET has been reported to be a reliable predictor of outcome in follicular lymphoma requiring treatment, and prospective trials to test PET-guided therapy in this disease are anticipated.

SUBMITTER: Barrington SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5632732 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT in Lymphoma: Has Imaging-Directed Personalized Medicine Become a Reality?

Barrington Sally F SF   Johnson Peter W M PWM  

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20170810 10


PET/CT using <sup>18</sup>F-FDG is an essential part of the management of patients with lymphoma. Efforts to standardize PET acquisition and reporting, including the 5-point Deauville scale, have enabled PET to become a surrogate for treatment success or failure in common lymphoma subtypes. This review summarizes the key clinical-trial evidence that supports PET-directed personalized approaches in lymphoma. PET-guided therapy has improved outcomes in Hodgkin lymphoma, using less chemotherapy and  ...[more]

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