Molecular Imaging using PET/CT Applying 68Ga-Labeled Tracers and Targeted Radionuclide Therapy: Theranostics on the Way to Personalized Medicine
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Theranostics is an acronym, which exemplifies the togetherness of diagnostics and therapeutics in the individualized management of disease. The key to personalized medicine in cancer is to determine the molecular phenotypes of neoplasms, so that specific probes can be selected to target the tumor and its microenvironment. Molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy using a particular probe is based on this premise. Neuroendocrine neoplasms express somatostatin receptors, enabling the use of somatostatin analogs for molecular imaging, when labeled with the positron-emitter 68Ga for receptor positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), and targeted radionuclide therapy, when labeled with beta-emitters 90Y and 177Lu.
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