Tu - Immuno-PET imaging in haematological neoplasms Flashcards

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What is the difference between molecular profiling and molecular imaging?

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Profiling is seeing how treatment will go, imaging is seeing in real time where the drug is going to and how it’s acting

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Why does the disease still grow if we only give a patient rituximab?

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Because lymph nodes that are not targeted will keep growing, even if the targeted lymph nodes diminish.

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What radioactive tracer is used for whole body PET imaging and quantification?

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Zirconium-89

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