2. Molecular imaging
offers unique insights into the
human body that enable
physicians to personalize
patient care. In terms of
diagnosis, molecular imaging is
able to:
provide information that is
unattainable with other imaging
technologies or that would
require more invasive
procedures such as biopsy or
surgery
identify disease in its earliest
stages and determine the exact
location of a tumor, often before
symptoms occur or
abnormalities can be detected
with other diagnostic tests
SNMI
12. PET
TRACERS
PET PROBE BIOMARKER USE
18 F
18 F- FDG GLUCOSE
METABOLISM
Lymphoma
Head & Neck ca
NSCLC, melanoma,
colon ca, Cardiac
Viability
18-F-FET AMINO ACID
METABOLISM
CANCER
(BRAIN- glioma)
18 F- FLT TISSUE
PROLIFERATION
CANCER
(BRAIN)
18-F- FMISO/FAZA TISSUE HYPOXIA CANCER
(GIST/SARCOMA)
18-F- FCH STEROL
PROLIFERATION
CANCER
(Prostate)
68 Ga 68-Ga- Octreotate TUMOUR RECEPTOR
OVEREXPRESSION
CANCER
(NET)
82-Rb ( PERFUSION) Myocardial Perfusion
14. Semiquatitative marker: SUV
– = tracer activity / injected dose normalized to
body weight.
• SUV was a significant and independent
predictor of local control and disease-free
survival . Tatsuo Torizuka et al AJR 2009; 192:W156-W160
15. Tumour FDG roles SUVmax
(FDG)
Published study
Colorectal metastasis Prognostic marker 10.0 Christopher C.R. et al.J
Nuc Med 2007 - (5)
Non-small lung
carcinoma
Predictor for
recurrent tumour
4.5 Shiono et al. J. of
Thoracic
Oncology.2011- (6)
Thymic tumour Predictor for
malignancy
8.5 Reimer SE et al. J Nucl
Med (1998)- (7)
Thymoma Predictor for tumour
aggressiveness
10.0 Yon et al. J Nucl
Med (2006) - (8)
Liposarcoma Predictor for disease
- free survival
3.6 Winfried B. et al.
European Journal of
Nuclear Medicine and
Molecular Imaging.
2006- (23)
Invasive ductal breast
cancer
Predictor for
progression-free
disease survival
6.6 Bong-Il S et al. Nucl
Med Mol Imaging.
(2011) – (32)
Phaechromocytoma/
Paraganglioma
recurrence
Predictor for tumour
aggressiveness
9.1 Fathinul F et al
(unpublished) –(39)
16. UTILITY OF FDG -PET AS A BIOMARKER
• LOCALISATION
• PRE-TREATMENT STAGING
• TREATMENT MONITORING
• PREDICTION OF TUMOUR
RECURRENCE/AGGRESSIVENESS
• PROGNOSTIC FACTOR
23. The critical need for Surrogate Biomarker
•Relative rare, NET cause substantial morbidity in
community
•Symptoms are innocuous
•Survival is long, suffering can be protracted
•Slow growth , low response rates using concentional
treatment
•Use of the structural imaging :
Detection of secondary deposits are poor
•NET: clonal heterogeneity-
discrimination of benign from malignant is difficult on
histology
•WHO: malignant disease is solely based on the basis of
metastasis/retrospective analysis
24. Introduction
•>13 known neuroendocrine cells that
can undergo malignant transformation
[Rindi G, Kloppel G. Endocrine tumors of the gut and
pancreas tumor biology and classification.
Neuroendocrinology 2004; 80(Suppl 1): 1215]
•Hormonal excess to constituitional
symptoms
•Peptide hormones bind to stimulatory or
inhibitory cell surface receptors (SSTR)
•NET express SSTR (subtype 2)
S
2
25. NEUROENDOCRINE
TUMOUR
• BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
Malignant NET
constitutes a rare
heterogenous group
of tumour
NET adrenal,
endocrine Islets
(thyroid , pancreas)
Digestive and
respiratoyr tracts
Indolent
Growth
• Well
differentiated
aggressive
• Poorly
differentiated
Malignant
potential
• De-
differentiated
26. 600 × 411 - ... progression to a higher grade of de-
differentiation and malignancy
FDG-PET: Prediction of aggressiveness
27. Imaging Biomarkers!
In this patient with metastatic NET, co-registered
image in transaxial planes demonstrate sites (cross-
hairs) of high FDG uptake on PET (left panels) lacking
in somatostatin receptor expression based on In-111
octreotide SPECT (right panels) scanning.
….unlike most tumours, no
molecular or cellular markers
can identify a PCC/PGL as
malignant. Vascular invasion
and cellular atypia, do not
definitively identify a
PCC/PGL as malignant
29. FDG-PET : Tumour Localisation
• ? Reliability of FDG-PET
– : useful marker in localising
metastatic/recurrent PCC/PGL
Timmers HJ, et al.
Superiority of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography to other functional imaging
techniques in the evaluation of metastatic SDHB-associated pheochromocytoma and
paraganglioma. J.Clin.Oncol. 2007 Jun 1;25(16):2262-2269
32. Factor No of Patients p
Local control
(n=9)
Metastasis
(n=14)
Tumour SUVmax
<9.2
>9.2
9
0
6
8
**0.03
Tumour size
<2.0cm
>2.0cm
9
0
9
5
0.14
Serum
catecholamine
positive
negative
2
7
12
2
0.18
Predictors for localcontrol/metastasis
** : Fischer’s exact test : significant value P<0.05
33. •The problem with molecular heterogeneity
•Tumour with indistinguishable histology
demonstrated quite different response to therapy
FDG-PET: Pre-treatment staging: