Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging techniques combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) or magnetic-resonance imaging (PET/MRI) have been developed in the last decades to improve primary diagnosis, staging, restaging, planning radiotherapy, and assessment of therapy efficacy for cancer patients. Currently, the most widely recognized and well-studied radiopharmaceutical is 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluoro-D-glucose ([18F]-FDG). However, [18F]-FDG has some limitations related to physiological accumulation in various organs and low avidity for some histological subtypes. Interest in Gallium 68 ([68Ga])-labeled fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI), which may have high sensitivity and specificity, has increased following the identification of FAP. We reviewed the current literature on [68Ga]-FAPI-based PET imaging techniques in the detection of female cancers and conducted a meta-analysis to determine the diagnostic performances of [68Ga]-FAPI-based PET imaging techniques for breast and gynecological cancers.