title: Diagnostic and therapeutic imaging for cancer: therapeutic considerations and future directions.
abstract: As cancer treatment cost soar and the mantra for "personalized medicine" grows louder, we will increasingly be searching for solutions to these diametrically opposed forces. In this review we highlight several exciting novel imaging strategies including MRI, CT, PET SPECT, sentinel node, and ultrasound imaging that hold great promise for improving outcomes through detection of lymph node involvement. We provide clinical data that demonstrate how these evolving strategies have the potential to transform treatment paradigms.
authors.affiliation: UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, California, USA. mroach@radonc.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Mack
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roach
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Alberini
authors.forename: Alain Paul
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Pecking
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Testori
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Verrecchia
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soteldo
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ganswindt
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Joyal
authors.forename: John W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Babich
authors.forename: Russell S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Witte
authors.forename: Evan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Unger
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033401:Microscopy, Acoustic; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor