Pattern of Uptake and Excretion of 18F-FDG in the Lactating Breast

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

David Binns¹  Michael G. Stabin¹  Rodney J. Hicks¹ 

[1] Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute Center for PET, Melbourne, Australia; and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute Center for PET, Melbourne, Australia; and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute Center for PET, Melbourne, Australia; and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

关键词: dosimetry;    breast;    radiopharmaceuticals;    ¹⁸F-FDG;    milk;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Society of Nuclear Medicine

【 摘 要 】

Excretion of radiopharmaceuticals into breast milk poses a potential risk to infants and clear recommendations regarding interruption times are required. There are few data available regarding the impact of 18F-FDG on this issue. With increasing use of PET for oncologic imaging and its potential advantages to nursing mothers because of its short physical half-life compared with other commonly used tumor imaging agents such as 67Ga and 201Tl, evaluation of the excretion pattern of this agent in breast milk is important. Methods: We have evaluated the uptake of FDG in the breasts in 7 women, 6 of whom were lactating and 1 of whom was in early postpartum but had not commenced breast-feeding. Milk samples were obtained from 4 of the lactating women, including serial samples from 1. Results: Significantly increased breast uptake was identified in all lactating breasts but not in 1 breast consistently refused by the nursing infant or in the woman who had not begun breast-feeding after delivery of her child. No qualitative change or semiquantitative estimate of radiotracer uptake in the breast was seen after expression of breast milk. Decay-corrected activity measurable in breast milk ranged from 5.54 to 19.3 Bq/mL/MBq injected. Using a standard model of breast-feeding, the calculated maximum cumulative dose to the infant, 0.085 mSv with no interruption of breast-feeding, is well below the recommended limit of 1 mSv. Conclusion: High uptake of FDG in the lactating breast appears to be related to suckling. There is, however, little secretion of activity into breast milk. Accordingly, a higher radiation dose is received by the infant from close contact with the breast than from ingestion of radioactive milk.

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