{"title":"Breast Cancer and PET Imaging.","authors":"Ismet Sarikaya","doi":"10.5603/NMR.2021.0004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and among the most common indications of oncologic positron emission tomography (PET) studies. In this review article, updated anatomical, pathological, and clinical information about breast cancer were provided for Nuclear Medicine physicians to better understand breast cancer and interpret PET images and a review of the literature on the use of PET imaging in breast cancer was summarized.</p>","PeriodicalId":44718,"journal":{"name":"NUCLEAR MEDICINE REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NUCLEAR MEDICINE REVIEW","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5603/NMR.2021.0004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women and among the most common indications of oncologic positron emission tomography (PET) studies. In this review article, updated anatomical, pathological, and clinical information about breast cancer were provided for Nuclear Medicine physicians to better understand breast cancer and interpret PET images and a review of the literature on the use of PET imaging in breast cancer was summarized.
期刊介绍:
Written in English, NMR is a biannual international periodical of scientific and educational profile. It is a journal of Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian and Yugoslav Societies of Nuclear Medicine. The periodical focuses on all nuclear medicine topics (diagnostics as well as therapy), and presents original experimental scientific papers, reviews, case studies, letters also news about symposia and congresses. NMR is indexed at Index Copernicus (7.41), Scopus, EMBASE, Index Medicus/Medline, Ministry of Education 2007 (4 pts.).