Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI for Prediction of Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Initial Results
Claudette E. Loo, H. Jelle Teertstra, Sjoerd Rodenhuis, Marc J. van de Vijver, Juliane Hannemann, Saar H. Muller, Marie-Jeanne Vrancken Peeters, and Kenneth G. A. Gilhuijs
AJR 2008;191:1331-1338
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Reduction of less than 25% in largest diameter of late enhancement during neoadjuvant chemotherapy shows the potential to predict residual tumor after therapy with high specificity.
This paper however continues the trend to measure anatomical dimensions, which are late responses to chemotherapy, and do not give the early feedback about neoadjuvant response
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