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Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2022 Jan;23(1):e32–e43. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00577-5

Table 2:

Active Studies of PET/MRI for Breast Cancer

NCT# Title Aim # Patients
Glucose Metabolism Imaging with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
03510988 Dedicated Breast PET/MRI in Evaluation of Extent of Disease in Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer To determine any incremental added benefit to breast MRI specificity by the addition of concurrent hybrid breast PET 147
01672021 Initial Assessment of FDG-PET/MRI in Determining the Extent of Systemic Disease in Breast Cancer Patients To assess the ability of FDG-PET/MR imaging to detect systemic disease in breast cancer patients as compared with conventional FDG-PET/CT 80
04829643 Targeting the Future of Axillary Staging in Early Breast Cancer: A Comparative Study: Sentinel Node Biopsy vs PET/MRI To compare the staging power between sentinel node biopsy and PET/MRI in detecting axillary lymph node macrometastases 247
04826211 Targeting the Future of Axillary Staging in Node Positive Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Primary Systemic Therapy. A Comparative Study Between Sentinel Node Biopsy vs PET/MRI To compare the staging power between sentinel node biopsy or lymphadenectomy vs PET/MRI 110
03374826 Non-invasive Axillary Lymph Node Staging in Breast Cancer With PET-MRI To determine the accuracy of dedicated axillary hybrid PET/MRI to exclude axillary lymph node metastases in clinically node negative patients 125
04273555 Monitoring Early Response to Targeted Therapy in Stage IV Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients with Advanced PET/MRI To evaluate PET/MRI for monitoring treatment response 20
Hypoxia Imaging with 18F-Fluoromisonidazole (FMISO)
04332588 Monitoring HER2+ Breast Cancer Neoadjuvant Treatment with Advanced PET/MRI To evaluate PET/MRI with FMISO for monitoring and predicting the effect of trastuzumab (Herceptin) on chemotherapy in patients diagnosed with advanced HER2 positive breast cancer 25
04861077 Monitoring Breast Cancer Immunotherapy Treatment with Advanced PET/MRI: A Pilot Study To investigate the utility of FMISO PET/MRI in patients with triple negative stage II-IV breast cancer to monitor and predict the effect of immunotherapy 20
Estrogen Receptor Imaging with 18F-Fluoroestradiol (FES)
03703492 PET/MRI of Estrogen Receptor Expression in Non-Invasive Breast Cancer To compare quantitative FES uptake of biopsy-proven ductal carcinoma in situ measured using PET/MRI with ER protein levels determined by immunohistochemistry 34
Progesterone Receptor Imaging with 18F-Fluorofuranylnorprogesterone (FFNP)
03212170 FFNP PET/MR Imaging of Progesterone Receptor Expression in Invasive Breast Cancer To test the accuracy of PET/MRI imaging with FFNP for measuring progesterone receptor expression in patients with invasive breast cancer 28
HER2 Imaging with 89Zr-Df-Trastuzumab
03321045 PET Imaging With 89Zr-Trastuzumab for Prediction of HER2 Targeted Therapy Effectiveness To measure the diagnostic quality (with standardized uptake values) of PET/MRI imaging with 89Zr-Df-Trastuzumab in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer 10
Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor (GRPR) Imaging with Gallium 68-labeled GRPR Antagonist BAY86–7548
03831711 A Pilot Study of 68Ga-RM2 PET/MRI in the Evaluation of Patients with Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer To evaluate the feasibility of 68Ga-RM2 PET/MRI for identification of estrogen receptor positive primary breast cancer and metastases 20

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