title: Monitoring therapeutic efficacy in breast carcinomas.
abstract: The aim of imaging during and after neoadjuvant therapy is to document and quantify tumor response: has the tumor size been accurately measured? Certainly, the most exciting information for the oncologists is: can we identify good or nonresponders, and can we predict the pathological response early after the initiation of treatment? This review article will discuss the role and the performance of the different imaging modalities (mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging and FDG-PET imaging) for evaluating this therapeutic response. It is important to emphasize that, at this time, clinical examination and conventional imaging (mammography and ultrasound) are the only methods recognized by the international criteria. Magnetic resonance imaging and FDG-PET imaging are very promising for predicting the response early after the initiation of neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248, Paris, Cedex 05, France. anne.tardivon@curie.net
authors.forename: Anne A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Tardivon
authors.forename: Liliane
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ollivier
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: El Khoury
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Thibault
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D020360:Neoadjuvant Therapy; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18