Retrospective Analysis of PET Brain Imaging in Chronic Cancer Pain

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04537845

201907175RINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer pain deteriorated in quality of life and related with numerous psychosocial problems. Over the one third of cancer patient suffered from moderate to severe cancer pain, even under adequate pain management.

The 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) images can provide quantitative results in clinical oncology. As a functional neuroimaging, the PET evidently provided anatomical activated regions, size, and spatial extent information. In this retrospective study, we use FDG-PET to investigate changes concerning the glucose metabolism in the brain with or without cancer pain.

Enrollment: 119 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cancer patient

Exclusion criteria

• no brain metastasis

Trial design

119 participants in 2 patient groups

with cancer pain

without cancer pain