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Treatment of progressive MTC patients (calcitonin doubling times shorter than 5 years) achieved a disease control rate (durable stabilization plus objective response) of 76.2% according to RECIST morphological imaging criteria, a durable complete response of more than 40 months in 1 patient (2.4%) and durable stable disease (≥6 months) in 31 patients (73.8%) (Chatal et al. 2006).

Complex morphological imaging criteria do not perform better than standard criteria used in daily routine.

Hence, morphological imaging criteria might be used for evaluation of the current disease status but not for predicting the final outcome in this selective patient population.

With morphological imaging criteria, RRs of mCRC patients harboring KRAS mutations treated with cetuximab have been found significantly lower than for patients without KRAS mutations and there has since 2008/2009 been international consensus that these patients should not be treated with cetuximab 17, 39, 40.

Thus, future chemotherapeutic regimens may obviate traditional response assessment criteria and emphasize the need for new predictive and probably combined morphological and metabolic imaging criteria.

The natural history of prostate cancer with bone metastasis development, accounting for up to 90% of patients, induces a bias in the assessment of treatment efficacy, because most of these lesions are poorly assessable with morphological imaging techniques and Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria.

With the application of conventional morphological imaging techniques and standardised response criteria based on tumour size measurements, imaging continues to be used to define key study end points.

The field of MR imaging has progressively grown from morphological imaging to physiological imaging and finally to interventional imaging.

Where morphological imaging is suboptimal in this differentiation, we have found that functional imaging aids diagnosis.

Molecular imaging (MI) includes a number of morphological imaging techniques (i.e. ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging), and optical imaging techniques (i.e. bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging) [3, 4].

CT is the predominant morphological imaging modality.