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In this study, the investigators want to pre-operatively scan patients who do not have any clinically suspicion of metastases with an 18F-FDG-PET/CT whole body scan , where after they go to lymphoscintigraphy incl. SPECT/CT and sentinel node biopsy. Material from the oral cancer and, after permission of each patient, also normal oral tissue will be analyzed molecular-biologically. Also a blood sample will be analyzed for molecular tumor markers.
The investigators want to see if PET/CT is able to detect any signs of sub-clinically metastases. Besides, the investigators want to fusion PET/CT with SPECT/CT data from the lymphoscintigraphy study and improve our PET/CT scanning with a dual-time PET scan of the head-and-neck region.
These patients are normally preoperatively sent to a CT scan of the thorax and abdomen; in this study, this CT is replaced by a wholebody PET/CT scan. Afterwards, the patients goes to sentinel node lymphoscintigraphy and then to operation.
By combining biomarkers and molecular imaging in patients with a clinically T1/T2N0M0 oral cancer, we want to characterize the tumor physiologically and correlate these physiological features to the clinical appearance of the cancer.
Aims of the study:
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70 consecutive patients with biopsy-verified oral cancer without a suspicion of metastases and without prior treated neck
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Christine W Dümcke, Dr. | Dep. of Nuclear Medicine & PET | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dep. of Nuclear Medicine & PET | Copenhagen | 2100 | Denmark | |||
| Dep. of otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery/ Rigshospitalet |
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| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D009062 | Mouth Neoplasms |
| ID | Term |
|---|---|
| D006258 | Head and Neck Neoplasms |
| D009371 | Neoplasms by Site |
| D009369 | Neoplasms |
| D009059 | Mouth Diseases |
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whole blood, primary cancer tissue, normal oral tissue
| Copenhagen |
| 2100 |
| Denmark |
| D009057 |
| Stomatognathic Diseases |