Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Fluorine-18-α-methyltyrosine,, Positron emission tomography,, Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose,, Lung cancer,
Brief summary
L-\[3-18F\]-α-methyltyrosine (18F-FMT) is an amino-acid tracer for positron emission tomography (PET). The aim of this study was to determine whether PET-CT with 18F-FMT provides additional information for the preoperative diagnostic workup as compared with 18F-FDG PET. Tumor uptake of 18F-FMT was compared with several immunohistochemical markers including L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1).
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Patients with indeterminate pulmonary nodule suspicious of lung cancer
Exclusion criteria
* Patients with other malignancies and those who had received cancer treatment within the past 5 years were excluded.