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Meta-Analysis of Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI for the Assessment of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast
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The purpose of this meta-analysis was to determine the value of quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI (DCE-MRI) in evaluating the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases (from building to July 31, 2018) were searched to collect articles about the therapeutic evaluation of NAC using the quantitative DCE-MRI in patients with breast cancer. The sensitivities and specificities of quantitative DCE-MRI in the evaluation of NAC for breast cancer were extracted from the articles. Meta-DiSc1.4 was applied to evaluate the efficacy of the sensitivity and specificity; forest figure and summary receiver operating characteristics (SROC) were created. A total of 356 articles were enrolled in this study, including 739 cases in total, in which 218 cases were effective and the other 521 cases were ineffective to NAC, considering the pathological results as the gold standard. The sensitivity and specificity in the included 14 articles of quantitative DCE-MRI (Ktrans, Kep, and ve) in comprehensively evaluating NAC for breast cancer were 84 per cent (95% confidence interval (CI): 78-88%) and 83 per cent (95% CI: 79-86%), respectively. The area under SROC was 0.899 (95% CI: 0.867-0.943). The sensitivity and specificity in the three articles of Ktrans evaluating NAC for breast cancer were 84.1 per cent (95% CI: 71.0-92.1%) and 81.3 per cent (95% CI: 70.5%-88.5%), respectively. The area under SROC was 0.899 (95% CI: 0.834-0.962). Our study confirmed that the quantitative DCE-MRI is able to monitor NAC treatment for breast cancer because of its high sensitivity and specificity. However, there is a high degree of heterogeneity in published studies, highlighting the lack of standardization in the field.
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