Fluorine-18-α-Methyltyrosine Positron Emission Tomography for Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer: A Clinicopathologic Study
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- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Clinical Cancer Research
- Vol. 13 (21), 6369-6378
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-1294
Abstract
Purpose:l-[3-18F]-α-Methyltyrosine ([18F]FMT) is an amino acid tracer for positron emission tomography (PET). We evaluated the diagnostic usefulness of [18F]FMT PET in non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Tumor uptake of [18F]FMT was compared with that of 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ([18F]FDG) and correlated with L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1) expression. Experimental Design: Fifty NSCLC patients were enrolled in this study, and a pair of PET study with [18F]FMT and [18F]FDG was done. LAT1 expression and Ki-67 labeling index of the resected tumors were analyzed by immunohistochemical staining. Results: For the primary tumor detection, [18F]FMT PET exhibited a sensitivity of 90% whereas the sensitivity for [18F]FDG PET was 94%. For lymph node staging, the sensitivity and specificity of [18F]FMT PET were 57.8% and 100%, and those of [18F]FDG PET were 65.7% and 91%, respectively. The expression of LAT1 in squamous cell carcinoma and large cell carcinoma was significantly higher than that in adenocarcinoma. [18F]FMT uptake was also higher in squamous cell carcinoma and large cell carcinoma than in adenocarcinoma. Uptake of [18F]FMT in the tumor is closely correlated with LAT1 expression (ρ = 0.890). Conclusion: [18F]FMT PET had no false-positives in the detection of primary tumor and lymph node metastasis and could improve the diagnostic performance in NSCLC. Uptake of [18F]FMT correlated with the expression of LAT1 that showed a significant association with cellular proliferation.Keywords
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