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Open Access
01-11-2016 | Editorial Commentary
ImmunoPET to help stratify patients for targeted therapies and to improve drug development
Authors:
Françoise Kraeber-Bodere, Clément Bailly, Michel Chérel, Jean-François Chatal
Published in:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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Issue 12/2016
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Excerpt
Malignant tumours usually display intratumoral heterogeneity as well as phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity among patients. Consequently, there is the need to develop treatments appropriate to each patient [
1]. Screening of tumour phenotypes requires biopsy, a procedure that is invasive and limited to accessible tumour sites. Moreover, it is difficult to obtain repeated biopsies from the same lesions to explore changes in properties and heterogeneity during therapy. There is therefore the need for new noninvasive diagnostic technologies such as molecular imaging to assess whole-body tumour phenotypes to allow more specific therapeutic strategies to be developed. …