Breast cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Patient who is diagnosed as breast cancer 2) Patient who has performed, or who will be perform pathological estrogen receptor evaluation in our hospital 3) Patient who have completed the written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1) Patient who is pregnant or who has the possibility of pregnancy 2) Patient who have difficulty in performing PET/CT exam by the severe pain or bad condition 3) Patient who are determined as not appropriate for attending this study by the investigators
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| a) Validity of PET imaging process, b) relationship between the uptake in 18F-FES PET/CT and the pathological expression of estrogen receptor at primary lesion of breast cancer, and c) relationship between the uptake in 18F-FES PET/CT and the results of other imaging modalities, are evaluated by the visual comparison by radiologists and statistical analysis by the results of pathology and other imaging modalities, when 18F-FES PET/CT images of all the cases will be acquired. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Saitama Medical University International Medical Center Nuclear Medicine