Relationship between Changes in Myocardial F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake and Radiation Dose after Adjuvant Three-Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy in Patients with Breast Cancer
Open Access
- 2 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Vol. 9 (3), 666
- https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9030666
Abstract
This study aimed to assess the relationship between radiation dose and changes in the irradiated myocardial F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake after radiotherapy (RT) in breast cancer patients. The data of 55 patients with left and 48 patients with right breast cancer who underwent curative surgical resection and adjuvant three-dimensional conformal RT and staging (PET1), post-adjuvant chemotherapy (PET2), post-RT (PET3), and surveillance (PET4) FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) were retrospectively reviewed. The median interval between PET1 and curative surgical resection, between the end of adjuvant chemotherapy and PET2, between the end of RT and PET3, and between the end of RT and PET4 were five days, 13 days, 132 days, and 353 days, respectively. The myocardial-to-blood pool uptake ratio was measured in all patients. For patients with left breast cancer, the 30 Gy- (30 Gy) and 47.5 Gy-irradiated myocardium-to-low-irradiated myocardium (47.5 Gy) FDG uptake ratios were additionally measured. There were no differences in the myocardial-to-blood pool uptake ratios between left and right breast cancer on all PET scans. For left breast cancer, higher 30 Gy and 47.5 Gy uptake ratios were observed on PET3 than on PET1 and PET2. Both uptake ratios decreased on PET4 compared to PET3, but, were still higher compared to PET1. On PET3 and PET4, the 47.5 Gy were higher than the 30 Gy uptake ratios, while there were no differences between them on PET1 and PET2. Although the whole myocardium FDG uptake showed no significant change, the irradiated myocardium FDG uptake significantly increased after RT and was related to radiation dose to the myocardium in breast cancer patients. These results might be an imaging evidence that supports the increased risk of heart disease after RT in patients with left breast cancer.Funding Information
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017R1C1B5075905, NRF-2018R1C1B5040061)
- Soonchunhyang University (Soonchunhyang University Research Fund)
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