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FDG PET in Multiple Myeloma

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The potential of 18Fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) for the treatment of multiple myeloma has recently been evaluated. FDG-PET is a powerful imaging tool for the detection of bone lesions at initial diagnosis with high sensitivity and specificity values. The presence of extra-medullary lesions affects the prognosis. During therapeutic evaluation, FDG-PET is the reference imaging technique, because it can be performed much earlier than an MRI which lacks specificity. The negativity of FDG-PET before and after autologous stem cell transplantation is an independent favorable prognostic factor, especially for patients with a complete biological response.

In patients with smoldering multiple myeloma, the presence of one or more hyper-metabolic lytic lesions on FDG-PET may be considered as a criterion for initiating therapy. In the event of a suspect solitary plasmacytoma, the completion of a PET-FDG is indicated so as to not disregard other bone or extra-medullary localizations. The challenge of future multi-center prospective studies will be to standardize the interpretation criteria of FDG-PET, especially in the therapeutic evaluation.

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“This work has been supported in part by grants from the French National Agency for Research called “Investissements d’Avenir” IRON Labex n° ANR-11-LABX-0018-01 and ArronaxPlus Equipex n° ANR-11-EQPX-0004, and by a grant INCa-DGOS-Inserm_12558 (SIRIC ILIAD).”

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  1. Nuclear Medicine Unit, University Hospital, Nantes, France

    Bastien Jamet, Clément Bailly, Thomas Carlier, Anne-Victoire Michaud, Caroline Bodet-Milin & Françoise Kraeber-Bodéré

  2. CRCINA, INSERM, CNRS, Angers University, Nantes University, Nantes, France

    Clément Bailly, Thomas Carlier, Cyrille Touzeau, Philippe Moreau, Caroline Bodet-Milin & Françoise Kraeber-Bodéré

  3. Haematology Department, University Hospital, Nantes, France

    Cyrille Touzeau & Philippe Moreau

  4. Nuclear Medicine Unit, ICO-Gauducheau, Nantes, Saint-Herblain, France

    Françoise Kraeber-Bodéré

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Jamet, B. et al. (2019). FDG PET in Multiple Myeloma. In: Nanni, C., Fanti, S., Zanoni, L. (eds) Molecular Imaging in Multiple Myeloma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19019-4_3

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