| Literature DB >> 24900007 |
Nobuyuki Oyama1, Noriko Takahara1, Yoko Hasegawa1, Kazuya Tanase1, Yoshiji Miwa1, Hironobu Akino1, Hidehiko Okazawa2, Takashi Kudo2, Yasuhisa Fujibayashi2, Osamu Yokoyama1.
Abstract
Although sunitinib shows a high response rate in patients with untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), quite a few patients show no therapeutic effect. Therefore, it is crucial to distinguish the patients who respond to sunitinib from those who do not as early as possible after the administration of the therapy. We herein report a case of mRCC in which (11)C-acetate (AC) positron emission tomography (PET) showed an early therapeutic effect of sunitinib treatment 4 weeks after its administration.Entities:
Keywords: 11C-acetate; Positron emission tomography; Renal cell carcinoma; Sunitinib; Therapeutic effect
Year: 2011 PMID: 24900007 PMCID: PMC4043014 DOI: 10.1007/s13139-011-0084-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucl Med Mol Imaging ISSN: 1869-3474