• Clinical nuclear medicine · May 2017

    Clinical Trial

    Incremental Value of Cocktail 18F-FDG and 18F-NaF PET/CT Over 18F-FDG PET/CT Alone for Characterization of Skeletal Metastases in Breast Cancer.

    • Mohan J Roop, Baljinder Singh, Harmandeep Singh, Ankit Watts, Pavneet S Kohli, Bhagwant R Mittal, and Gurpreet Singh.
    • From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine, and †General Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India.
    • Clin Nucl Med. 2017 May 1; 42 (5): 335-340.

    PurposeThe aim of this study was to evaluate the incremental value of cocktail F-FDG/F-NaF PET/CT over F-FDG PET/CT alone for detection of skeletal metastases in breast cancer patients.MethodsSeventy patients with locally advanced/recurrent breast cancer were prospectively included. All patients underwent whole-body F-FDG PET/CT and cocktail F-FDG/F-NaF PET/CT within a span of 1 week. Both studies were evaluated to detect presence of skeletal/marrow metastases on PET/CT images by 2 nuclear medicine physicians. Clinical and radiological correlation/follow-up was used as criterion standard.ResultsOf 70 patients, 50 (71.0%) had locally advanced breast cancer, and 20 had recurrent breast cancer. On patient-wise analysis, both cocktail PET/CT and F-FDG PET/CT identified skeletal/marrow lesions in 23 (32.8%) of 70 patients. In 8 patients (11.4%), only cocktail PET/CT identified skeletal/marrow lesions, whereas F-FDG PET/CT was negative. In the rest of the 39 patients (55.8%), no skeletal/marrow lesion was identified on both scans. Good correlation was noted between cocktail PET/CT and F-FDG PET/CT results (r = 0.785, P < 0.0001). Cocktail PET/CT detected lesions in significantly more number of patients than F-FDG PET/CT alone (P = 0.007). On lesion-wise analysis, cocktail PET/CT detected more number of lesions in 20 patients as compared with F-FDG-PET/CT alone. Both scans detected same number of lesions in the rest of 11 patients with positive findings. A total of 32 additional lesions were identified on cocktail PET/CT imaging as compared with F PET/CT alone (P < 0.0001).ConclusionsCocktail F-FDG and F-NaF PET/CT is superior to F-FDG PET/CT alone for the detection of skeletal/marrow metastases in breast cancer. It can be a better alternative to F-FDG PET/CT alone in facilities where both tracers are available.

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