RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Functional Imaging of Chemobrain: Usefulness of Nuclear Medicine in the Fog Coming After Cancer
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine
JO J Nucl Med
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 508
OP 514
DO 10.2967/jnumed.121.263294
VO 64
IS 4
A1 Chiaravalloti, Agostino
A1 Filippi, Luca
A1 Pagani, Marco
A1 Schillaci, Orazio
YR 2023
UL http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/64/4/508.abstract
AB The impact of chemotherapy on brain functionality has been widely investigated from a clinical perspective, and there is a consensus on a significant impairment of multiple cognitive domains affecting cancer patients after treatment. Nuclear medicine offers a variety of biomarkers for evaluating possible effects of chemotherapy on the brain and for depicting brain changes after chemotherapy. This review summarizes the most relevant findings on brain imaging in patients undergoing chemotherapy for the most common oncologic diseases. The literature published to date offers exciting results on several radiolabeled compounds, from the more common imaging of glucose metabolism to neuroinflammation. This review also provides a general overview of the literature concerning clinical features and the physiopathologic basis of chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment.