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SUBMITTER: Raccagni I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5965848 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raccagni Isabella I Belloli Sara S Valtorta Silvia S Stefano Alessandro A Presotto Luca L Pascali Claudio C Bogni Anna A Tortoreto Monica M Zaffaroni Nadia N Daidone Maria Grazia MG Russo Giorgio G Bombardieri Emilio E Moresco Rosa Maria RM
PloS one 20180523 5
<h4>Rationale</h4>Pathological response to neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) represents a commonly used predictor of survival in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and the need to identify markers that predict response to NAC is constantly increasing. Aim of this study was to evaluate the potential usefulness of PET imaging with [18F]FDG and [18F]FLT for the discrimination of TNBC responders to Paclitaxel (PTX) therapy compared to the response assessed by an adapted Response Evaluation Criteria ...[more]