Abstract

Over 100,000 women in the U.S. will have axillary dissections recommended for breast CA staging in 1986. The presence or absence of metastatic cancer in the axillary lymph nodes in women with breast cancer is the most significant prognostic indicator for the development of metastatic disease. The status of the nodes is used to determine the most appropriate therapy. Surgical dissection of the axilla is currently the only way to obtain this information. The surgery itself does not have any impact on the women's survival. It does, however, carry associated potential morbidity. An accurate, non-invasive test of the axillary nodal status would therefore be of value. The purpose of this investigation is to: a) establish the methodology for proton NMR imaging of the axilla; b) determine the relationships between the NMR images of the in vivo axilla, the dissected lymph nodes, and the actual pathology findings; c) establish the utility of proton NMR imaging in accurately determining the axillary nodal status.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Research Program Projects (P01)
Project #
5P01CA041078-02
Application #
3820792
Study Section
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
Budget End
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
1988
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Department
Type
DUNS #
042250712
City
Philadelphia
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
19111

  Publications

Lee, Seung-Cheol; Arias-Mendoza, Fernando; Poptani, Harish et al. (2012) Prediction and Early Detection of Response by NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging. PET Clin 7:119-26
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Stoyanova, Radka; Nicholson, Jeremy K; Lindon, John C et al. (2004) Sample classification based on Bayesian spectral decomposition of metabonomic NMR data sets. Anal Chem 76:3666-74
Sajda, Paul; Du, Shuyan; Brown, Truman R et al. (2004) Nonnegative matrix factorization for rapid recovery of constituent spectra in magnetic resonance chemical shift imaging of the brain. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 23:1453-65
Stoyanova, Radka; Querec, Troy D; Brown, Truman R et al. (2004) Normalization of single-channel DNA array data by principal component analysis. Bioinformatics 20:1772-84
Stoyanova, Radka; Nicholls, Andrew W; Nicholson, Jeremy K et al. (2004) Automatic alignment of individual peaks in large high-resolution spectral data sets. J Magn Reson 170:329-35
Nahum, Alan E; Movsas, Benjamin; Horwitz, Eric M et al. (2003) Incorporating clinical measurements of hypoxia into tumor local control modeling of prostate cancer: implications for the alpha/beta ratio. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 57:391-401
Stoyanova, R; Brown, T R (2002) NMR spectral quantitation by principal component analysis. III. A generalized procedure for determination of lineshape variations. J Magn Reson 154:163-75
Stoyanova, R; Brown, T R (2001) NMR spectral quantitation by principal component analysis. NMR Biomed 14:271-7
Ochs, M F; Stoyanova, R S; Arias-Mendoza, F et al. (1999) A new method for spectral decomposition using a bilinear Bayesian approach. J Magn Reson 137:161-76

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