The application of radionuclide therapy for breast cancer

Anna Musket, Sandra Davern, Brianna M. Elam, Philip R. Musich, Jonathan P. Moorman, Yong Jiang

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Abstract

Radionuclide-mediated diagnosis and therapy have emerged as effective and low-risk approaches to treating breast cancer. Compared to traditional anatomic imaging techniques, diagnostic radionuclide-based molecular imaging systems exhibit much greater sensitivity and ability to precisely illustrate the biodistribution and metabolic processes from a functional perspective in breast cancer; this transitions diagnosis from an invasive visualization to a noninvasive visualization, potentially ensuring earlier diagnosis and on-time treatment. Radionuclide therapy is a newly developed modality for the treatment of breast cancer in which radionuclides are delivered to tumors and/or tumor-associated targets either directly or using delivery vehicles. Radionuclide therapy has been proven to be eminently effective and to exhibit low toxicity in eliminating both primary tumors and metastases, and even undetected tumors. In addition, the specific interaction between the surface modules of the delivery vehicles and the targets on the surface of tumor cells enables radionuclide targeting therapy, and this represents an exceptional potential for this treatment in breast cancer. This article reviews the development of radionuclide molecular imaging techniques that are currently employed for early breast cancer diagnosis and both the progress and challenges of radionuclide therapy employed in breast cancer treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1323514
JournalFrontiers in Nuclear Medicine
Volume3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Funding

The author(s) declare that no financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Keywords

  • breast cancer
  • early diagnosis
  • radionuclide
  • therapy
  • tumor

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