European Journal of Radiology 2019-Dec
Correlation between 18F-FDG uptake on PET/MRI and the level of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in triple-negative and HER2-positive breast cancer.
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We retrospectively reviewed the cases of 55 women with triple-negative or HER2-positive invasive ductal carcinomas who had undergone 18F-FDG PET/MRI without neo-adjuvant treatment for pre-operative evaluation. FDG uptake was quantified as standardized uptake value (SUV) max. The existence of peritumoral edema on PET/MRI was also recorded. The TIL score of the breast cancers was defined histologically on the basis of the proportion of the area infiltrated by lymphocytes, and classified as low (<10 %), intermediate (10-50 %), and high (>50 %). The association between PET/MRI findings and TILs was assessed using Kruskal-Wallis test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test.CONCLUSIONS
18F-FDG uptake on PET/MRI correlated with TIL levels in patients with TNBC and HER2-positive breast cancer. This finding suggests that preoperative PET/MRI may be useful as a non-invasive tool for guiding the treatment plan.