Publications by authors named "Ziren Kong"

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) can only be cured through the excision of all metastatic lesions, but current clinical practice fails to localize the disease in 29% to 60% of patients. Previously, we developed a fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI)-based covalent targeted radioligand (CTR) for improved detection sensitivity and accuracy. In this first-in-class clinical trial, we head-to-head compared [68Ga]Ga-CTR-FAPI PET-CT and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) PET-CT in 50 patients with MTC.

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  • Trifluoroborate boronophenylalanine (BBPA) is a modified version of boronophenylalanine (BPA) used for advanced tumor imaging and therapy.
  • Clinical studies reveal that 18F-labeled BBPA ([18F]BBPA) provides clear images for PET scans and serves as a theranostic agent for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).
  • The research demonstrates that BBPA can increase boron concentration in tumors while maintaining consistent PET imaging across various doses, making it a promising tool for improving the accuracy of BNCT.
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Purpose: The survival rate of patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) who fail to achieve a biochemical cure after surgery is reduced. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic factors affecting the survival of MTC patients who do not achieve a biochemical cure after surgery.

Methods: Cox univariate and multivariate proportional hazard models were used to determine the influence of different variables on overall survival (OS).

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  • - This study focused on analyzing the clinical features and risk factors for disease progression in patients with T4a papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) based on a retrospective review of 602 patients from 2010 to 2022.
  • - Key findings included significant invasions in trachea (45.0%) and recurrent laryngeal nerve (85.7%), with a high 5-year progression-free survival rate of 89.8% and overall low mortality at 5.17%, while certain risk factors like age ≥55 and vocal cord paralysis increased progression risk.
  • - The study concludes that surgery remains the main treatment for T4a PTC, with most patients showing good outcomes, suggesting a need for thorough
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Targeted radionuclide therapy, in which radiopharmaceuticals deliver potent radionuclides to tumours for localized irradiation, has addressed unmet clinical needs and improved outcomes for patients with cancer. A therapeutic radiopharmaceutical must achieve both sustainable tumour targeting and fast clearance from healthy tissue, which remains a major challenge. A targeted ligation strategy that selectively fixes the radiopharmaceutical to the target protein in the tumour would be an ideal solution.

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Purpose: Boramino acids are a class of amino acid biomimics that replace the carboxylate group with trifluoroborate and can achieve the F-labeled positron emission tomography (PET) and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) with identical chemical structure.

Methods: This study reports a trifluoroborate-derived boronophenylalanine (BBPA), a derived boronophenylalanine (BPA) for BNCT, as a promising PET tracer for tumor imaging.

Results: Competition inhibition assays in cancer cells suggested the cell accumulation of [F]BBPA is through large neutral amino acid transporter type-1 (LAT-1).

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Objective: This study aims to develop a CT-based method for quantifying tracheal shape and evaluating its ability to distinguish between cases with or without tracheal invasion in patients with thyroid carcinoma.

Methods: A total of 116 quantitative shape features, including 56 geometric moments and 60 bounding shape features, were defined. The tracheal lumen was semi-automatically defined with a CT threshold of less than - 500 HU.

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Background: Kruppel-like factor 13 (KLF13) is a transcription factor and plays an important role in carcinogenesis. However, the significance of KLF13 in thyroid carcinoma (THCA) is underdetermined. In this study, we aimed to explore the clinical relevance and function of KLF13 in the progress of THCA.

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Objective: To determine the predictive ability of multifocality for central lymph node metastasis in initially treated 18-55 years old female patients with unilateral papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.

Study Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Tertiary medical center.

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Glioma is the most prevalent primary central nervous system malignant tumor, with high heterogeneity observed among different grades; therefore, non-invasive prediction of prognosis could improve the clinical management of patients with glioma. 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can estimate metabolite levels non-invasively. Multiple studies have investigated its prognostic value in gliomas; however, no consensus has been reached.

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Background: To explore the feasibility of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) metrics to predict the histologic subtypes and genetic status of gliomas (e.g., IDH, MGMT, and TERT) noninvasively.

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Radiotherapy has already been developed as the standard of care for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and precision staging, target volume delineation, prognosis prediction, and post-treatment surveillance are essential in the management of NPC. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is increasingly recognized as an imaging modality to guide precision radiotherapy in these areas. The feasibility and efficacy of F-FDG PET/CT have been confirmed in tumor diagnosis, treatment planning, prognosis, surveillance, and assessment.

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Fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) is a novel quinoline-based radiopharmaceutical that has theranostic potential, yet the limited tumor retention hinders late-time diagnosis and radionuclide treatment. This study synthesized four albumin-binding FAPIs (TE-FAPI-01 to 04) and evaluated their in vitro stability, binding affinity, in vivo biodistribution, and tumor uptake with Ga, Y, and Lu labeling, aiming to select the best molecule that has favorable pharmacokinetics to extend the blood circulation and tumor uptake in FAP-expressing tumors. All TE-FAPIs were stable in saline and plasma and displayed high FAP-binding affinity, with IC values ranging from 3.

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Background: To investigate the relationship between F-fluoroboronotyrosine (FBY) positron emission tomography (PET)- and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-defined tumor volumes in contrast-enhanced diffuse gliomas and circumscribed brain tumors.

Methods: A total of 16 diffuse gliomas and 7 circumscribed brain tumors were included, and two types of three-dimensional regions of interest (ROIs), namely, MRI-based ROI (ROI) and FBY-based ROI (ROI), were semiautomatically defined. The overlap volume and DICE score were calculated to reveal the spatial relationship between the ROI and ROI.

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Objective: [F]fluoroboronotyrosine (FBY) is a large neutral amino acid transporter 1 (LAT-1) dependent boron-derived tyrosine which has diagnostic and therapeutic potentiality. This study aimed to investigate the imaging characteristics of FBY positron emission tomography (PET) in malignant brain tumors.

Methods: A total of 35 patients with 36 lesions were prospectively enrolled for FBY positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

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The most common primary intracranial tumor is glioma, among which glioblastoma (GBM) has the worst prognosis. Because of the high degree of malignancy of GBM and frequent recurrence after surgery, postoperative therapy, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, is particularly important. A wide variety of targeted drugs have undergone phase III clinical trials for patients with GBM, but these drugs do not work for all patients, and few patients in these trials have prolonged overall survival.

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Introduction: Prognostic situations differ in patients with malignant intracranial tumors. We focused on the quality of life, ability of daily living, and cognitive function of patients in the perisurgery period and investigated the correlation between them and the prognosis of patients.

Materials And Methods: Patients with malignant intracranial tumors admitted to Peking Union Medical College Hospital from May 2018 to August 2020 for surgery were included.

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Recurrence is a major concern for adult patients with glioblastomas (GBMs), and the prognosis remains poor. Although several therapies have been assessed, most of them have not achieved satisfactory results. Therefore, there is currently no standard treatment for adult recurrent GBM (rGBM).

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Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary malignant intracranial tumor and closely related to metabolic alteration. However, few accepted prognostic models are currently available, especially models based on metabolic genes. The transcriptome data were obtained for all of the patients diagnosed with GBM from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) (training cohort, n=369) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) (validation cohort, n=152) with the following variables: age at diagnosis, sex, follow-up and overall survival (OS).

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Currently, glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant tumor of the central nervous system in adults. Fibroblast activation protein (FAP) is a member of the dipeptidyl peptidase family, which has catalytic activity and is engaged in protein recruitment and scaffolds. Recent studies have found that FAP expression in different types of cells within the GBM microenvironment is typically upregulated compared with that in lower grade glioma and is most pronounced in the mesenchymal subtype of GBM.

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Purpose: In this work, the safety, biodistribution, and radiation dosimetry of large neutral amino acid transporter type-1 (LAT-1) targeting PET tracer F-trifluorobborate-derived tyrosine (denoted as F-FBY) has been investigated. It is designed as a first-in-human study in healthy volunteers and to assay LAT-1 expression level in glioma patients.

Methods: Six healthy volunteers (3 M, 3 F) underwent whole-body PET acquisitions at multiple time points after bolus injection of F-FBY.

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Objective: Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation, telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutation and O-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter methylation status are diagnostic, prognostic, predictive and therapeutic biomarkers for primary diffuse gliomas, and this study aimed to explore the relationship between choline (CHO) positron emission tomography (PET) parameters and these molecular alterations.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients who were histopathologically diagnosed with primary diffuse glioma and underwent presurgical CHO PET/CT were retrospectively analyzed, and IDH, TERT and MGMT alterations were examined. The volume of interest (VOI) was semiautomatically defined based on standardized uptake value (SUV) thresholds, and 5 traditional CHO parameters, namely, SUVmax, SUVmean, metabolic tumor volume (MTV), total lesion CHO uptake (TLC) and tumor-to-normal contralateral cortex activity ratio (T/N ratio), were calculated.

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