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Query: UMLS:C0017636 (
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With the emergence of PET/CT using
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F-FDG, molecular imaging has become the reference for lymphoma lesion detection, tumor staging, and response assessment. According to the response in some lymphoma subtypes it has also been utilized for prognostication of disease. Although
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F-FDG has proved useful in the management of patients with lymphoma, the specificity of
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F-FDG uptake has been critically questioned, and is not without flaws. Its dependence on glucose metabolism, which may indiscriminately increase in benign conditions, can affect the
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F-FDG uptake in tumors and may explain the causes of false-positive imaging data. Considering these drawbacks,
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F-fludarabine, an adenine nucleoside analog, was developed as a novel PET imaging probe. An efficient and fully automated radiosynthesis has been implemented and, subsequently preclinical studies in xenograft murine models of hematological maligancies (
follicular lymphoma
, CNS lymphoma, multiple myeloma) were conducted with this novel PET probe in parallel with
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F-FDG. The results demonstrated several crucial points: tumor-specific targeting, weaker uptake in inflammatory processes, stronger correlation between quantitative values extracted from [
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]F-fludarabine and histology when compared to
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F-FDG-PET, robustness during immunotherapy with rituximab, divergent responses between CNS lymphoma and
glioblastoma
(
GBM
). All these favorable findings permitted to establish a "first in man" study where 10 patients were enrolled. In DLBCL patients, increased uptake was observed in sites considered abnormal by CT and [
18
F]FDG; in two patients discrepancies were observed in comparison with
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F-FDG. In CLL patients, the uptake coincided with sites expected to be involved and displayed a significant uptake in hematopoietic bone marrow. No uptake was observed, whatever the disease group, in the cardiac muscle and brain. Moreover, its mean effective dose was below the effective dose reported for
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F-FDG. These preclinical and clinical findings revealed a marked specificity of
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F-fludarabine for lymphoma tissues. Furthermore, it might well be a robust tool for correctly quantifying the disease, in the presence of confounding inflammatory processes, thus avoiding false-positive results, and an innovative approach for imaging hematological malignancies.
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F]-Fludarabine for Hematological Malignancies. 3105 54
