RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 FAPI PET/CT: Will It End the Hegemony of 18F-FDG in Oncology? JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine JO J Nucl Med FD Society of Nuclear Medicine SP 296 OP 302 DO 10.2967/jnumed.120.256271 VO 62 IS 3 A1 Rodney J. Hicks A1 Peter J. Roselt A1 Kumarswamy G. Kallur A1 Richard W. Tothill A1 Linda Mileshkin YR 2021 UL http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/62/3/296.abstract AB For over 40 years, 18F-FDG has been the dominant PET tracer in neurology, cardiology, inflammatory diseases, and, most particularly, oncology. Combined with the ability to perform whole-body scanning, 18F-FDG has revolutionized the evaluation of cancer and has stifled the adoption of other tracers, except in situations where low avidity or high background activity limits diagnostic performance. The strength of 18F-FDG has generally been its ability to detect disease in the absence of structural abnormality, thereby enhancing diagnostic sensitivity, but its simultaneous weakness has been a lack of specificity due to diverse pathologies with enhanced glycolysis. Radiotracers that leverage other hallmarks of cancer or specific cell-surface targets are gradually finding a niche in the diagnostic armamentarium. However, none have had sufficient sensitivity to realistically compete with 18F-FDG for evaluation of the broad spectrum of malignancies. Perhaps, this situation is about to change with development of a class of tracers targeting fibroblast activation protein that have low uptake in almost all normal tissues but high uptake in most cancer types. In this review, the development and exciting preliminary clinical data relating to various fibroblast activation protein–specific small-molecule inhibitor tracers in oncology will be discussed along with potential nononcologic applications.