Somatostatin Receptor Expression in Lung Neuroendocrine Tumors: An Analysis of DOTATATE PET Scans

• Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 64; no. 12; pp. 1895 - 1898
• Main Authors: Al-Toubah, Taymeyah, Montilla-Soler, Jaime, El-Haddad, Ghassan, Haider, Mintallah, Strosberg, Jonathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society of Nuclear Medicine 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine; Humans; Imaging; Lung - metabolism; Lungs; Metastases; Metastasis; Neuroendocrine tumors; Neuroendocrine Tumors - metabolism; Organometallic Compounds; Positron emission; Positron emission tomography; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Radiation therapy; Radioisotopes; Receptors; Receptors, Somatostatin - metabolism; Retrospective Studies; Somatostatin; Somatostatin receptors; Tumors; 68Ga-DOTATATE; 64Cu-DOTATATE; lung NETs; neuroendocrine tumors; somatostatin expression

Somatostatin receptor (SSTR) expression in metastatic lung neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) has not been well characterized using PET imaging. Understanding the degree and uniformity of SSTR expression is important to establish the role of SSTR-targeted treatments in lung NETs. A retrospective instituti...