PET/CT imaging for tumour response assessment to immunotherapy: current status and future directions

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 1-13 - 2020
Marcus Unterrainer1, Michael Ruzicka2, Matthias P. Fabritius1, Lena M. Mittlmeier3, Michael Winkelmann1, Johannes Rübenthaler1, Matthias Brendel3, Marion Subklewe2, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon2, Jens Ricke1, Wolfgang G. Kunz1, Clemens C. Cyran1,4
1Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
2Department of Medicine III, University Hospital, Munich, Germany
3Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Munich, Germany
4DIE RADIOLOGIE, Munich, Germany

Tóm tắt

Recent immunotherapeutic approaches have evolved as powerful treatment options with high anti-tumour responses involving the patient’s own immune system. Passive immunotherapy applies agents that enhance existing anti-tumour responses, such as antibodies against immune checkpoints. Active immunotherapy uses agents that direct the immune system to attack tumour cells by targeting tumour antigens. Active cellular-based therapies are on the rise, most notably chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, which redirects patient-derived T cells against tumour antigens. Approved treatments are available for a variety of solid malignancies including melanoma, lung cancer and haematologic diseases. These novel immune-related therapeutic approaches can be accompanied by new patterns of response and progression and immune-related side-effects that challenge established imaging-based response assessment criteria, such as Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid tumours (RECIST) 1.1. Hence, new criteria have been developed. Beyond morphological information of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography (PET) emerges as a comprehensive imaging modality by assessing (patho-)physiological processes such as glucose metabolism, which enables more comprehensive response assessment in oncological patients. We review the current concepts of response assessment to immunotherapy with particular emphasis on hybrid imaging with 18F-FDG-PET/CT and aims at describing future trends of immunotherapy and additional aspects of molecular imaging within the field of immunotherapy.

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