Purpose: To evaluate the utility of ring-type dedicated breast positron emission tomography (dbPET) for the detection of the residual tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC).

Materials And Methods: This prospective study included 27 women with histologically proven breast cancer over a 37-month period. All patients underwent ring-type dbPET followed by whole-body PET-CT (WBPET) for preoperative tumor evaluation and re-staging after NAC. The maximum standardized uptake value (SUV) of the tumor lesion and the degree of confidence for the presence of the residual tumor were compared between pathological complete response (pCR) and non-pCR tumors. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) for the detection of a non-pCR tumor were compared between dbPET and WBPET.

Results: On dbPET, SUV was significantly higher in non-pCR than in pCR tumors (P = 0.030). The sensitivity for the detection of a non-pCR tumor was significantly higher with dbPET than with WBPET (84.2% vs 26.3%, P = 0.001). In the qualitative analysis, the sensitivity for the detection of a non-pCR tumor was also significantly higher with dbPET than with WBPET (57.9% vs 21.1%, P = 0.016).

Conclusion: The dbPET can provide more sensitive detection of residual tumor after NAC than can WBPET.

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