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Investigation on tumor hypoxia in resectable primary prostate cancer as demonstrated by 18F-FAZA PET/CT utilizing multimodality fusion techniques.

Abstract：

PURPOSE:As hypoxia is believed to play an important role in the development and progression of prostate cancer, we evaluated whether 18F-labeled fluoroazomycin arabinoside (18F-FAZA) would be useful to identify tumor hypoxia in resectable prostate cancer. METHODS:Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT was performed on 14 patients with untreated localized primary prostate cancer 3 h post-injection of approximately 390 MBq of 18F-FAZA using forced diuresis to decrease radioactivity in the urinary bladder. Anatomical trans-pelvic coil and pre- and post-contrast 1.5 T MRI with endorectal coil were performed on the same day. Patients underwent radical prostatectomy and ex vivo 3 T MRI of the prostatectomy specimen within 14 days following in vivo imaging. Imaging results were verified by whole mount histopathology plus tissue microarray (TMA) immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis for carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) and hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α). Registration of in vivo imaging with histology was achieved using mutual information software and performing ex vivo MRI of the prostatectomy specimen and whole mount sectioning with block face photography as intermediate steps. RESULTS:Whole mount histology identified 43 tumor nodules, 19 of them larger than 1 ml as determined on coregistered volumes featuring 18F-FAZA, MRI, and histological 3-D image information. None of these lesions was found to be positive for CAIX or visualized by 18F-FAZA PET/CT while IHC for HIF-1α showed variable staining of tumor tissues. Accordingly, no correlation was found between 18F-FAZA uptake and Gleason scores. CONCLUSION:Our data based on 18F-FAZA PET/CT and CAIX IHC do not support the presence of clinically relevant hypoxia in localized primary prostate cancer including high-grade disease. Activation of HIF-1α may be independent of tissue hypoxia in primary prostate cancer.

journal_name

Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

journal_title

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

authors

Garcia-Parra R,Wood D,Shah RB,Siddiqui J,Hussain H,Park H,Desmond T,Meyer C,Piert M

doi

10.1007/s00259-011-1876-z

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-10-01 00:00:00

pages

1816-23

issue

eissn

1619-7070

issn

1619-7089

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Investigation on tumor hypoxia in resectable primary prostate cancer as demonstrated by 18F-FAZA PET/CT utilizing multimodality fusion techniques.