MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF BREAST -CANCER

Conservative therapeutic concepts with initial chemotherapy for patien ts with breast cancer represent a challenge to non-invasive techniques for monitoring response to therapy. Experimental magnetic resonance s pectroscopy studies have been able to show exemplary applications for therapy monitoring of breast cancer patients. The characteristic phosp homonoester resonances and their changes during therapy are possible c linical parameters. The additional information which can be obtained f rom proton and carbon spectroscopy increases the amount of detectable metabolites. On-going studies are investigating clinical applications of multinuclear spectroscopic studies in patients with breast cancer.