
The objective of the ACRIN 6688 multi-center clinical trial was to correlate changes measured by 18F-FLT PET imaging, a measure of cellular proliferation, in the primary tumor early during NAC (neo-adjuvant chemotherapy) with pCR (pathologic complete response) in locally advanced breast cancer patients. The trial also examined both pre-therapy and post-therapy association of 18F-FLT uptake with...