Novel tools for the imaging of tumor hypoxia using PET

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/469002

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Fast growing tumors often outgrow the ability of blood vessels to properly supply them with nutrients and oxygen. This creates tissue areas within the tumor that are lacking oxygen and are highly resistant to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Imaging these areas using nuclear medicine techniques has now become important for therapy planning of cancer sufferers. This project aims to improve the properties of the existing agents in order to better select patients for a particular type of treatment.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2011

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $727,856.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Radiotherapy And Nuclear Medicine

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Growth factor overexpression | Hypoxiain oncology | Positron emission tomography | Tumor hypoxia | Tumor response to treatment | renal cell carcinoma | squamous cell carcinoma

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