ISSN: 2641-9459
Authors: Troise S*
Cancer cells have a particular metabolism, which differs from normal cells; according to the so called “Warburg effect”, cancer cells have a predominant use of anaerobic glycolysis, i.e. they are able to use the sugar (glucose) present in the blood in any condition, both in the presence and absence of oxygen. This characteristic explains the great need that the cancer cells have for sugar, in order to rapidly duplicate and use mainly glucose as an energy source. Precisely for this reason, in PET, a diagnostic technique used to visualize the tumor mass, a glucose analogue is used as a tracer [1- 5].
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