ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental medicine2015
Value of sequential 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) in prediction of the overall survival of esophageal cancer patients treated with chemoradiotherapy.
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- PET/CT-Based Response Evaluation in Cancer-a Systematic Review of Design Issues.Molecular imaging and biology · 2020Pooled it
- Prognostic Value of Pretreatment [18F]FDG PET/CT Metabolic Parameters for Overall Survival in Esophageal Cancer: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort with Long-Term Follow-Up.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Interim position emission tomography-computed tomography during multimodality treatment of locally advanced esophageal cancer: a scoping review.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Prognostic value of baselineRadiation oncology (London, England) · 2023Article
- A FDG-PET radiomics signature detects esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients who do not benefit from chemoradiation.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The relationship between FDG PET/CT-defined metabolic parameters and the histopathological subtype of oesophageal carcinomas.Polish journal of radiology · 2020Article
- Confirmation of the prognostic value of pretherapeutic tumor SUR and MTV in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2019Article
- Metabolic parameters of sequential 18F-FDG PET/CT predict overall survival of esophageal cancer patients treated with (chemo-) radiation.Radiation oncology (London, England) · 2019Article
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- Increased evidence for the prognostic value of FDG uptake on late-treatment PET in non-tumour-affected oesophagus in irradiated patients with oesophageal carcinoma.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2018Article
- A study about different findings of PET-CT between neoadjuvant and non-neoadjuvant therapy: SUVmax is not a reliable predictor of lymphatic involvement after neoadjuvant therapy for esophageal cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Article
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Abstract
This study is to investigate the value of the metabolic parameters measured by sequential FDG PET/CT in predicting the overall survival of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). A total of 160 patients who were newly diagnosed as ESCC patients and treated with chemoradiotherapy were included in this study. The FDG PET/CT was carried out prior to radiotherapy (PET1), when the cumulative dose of radiotherapy reached 50 Gy (PET2), at the end of radiotherapy (PET3) and 1 month after radiotherapy (PET4). The max of the standard uptake value (SUVmax) of the primary tumor, the metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and the total lesion glycolisis (TLG) prior to treatment were measured. The correlation of the measured parameters and the derived parameters of SUVmax with the overall survival was analyzed. The relatively reduced percentage of the SUVmax of PET3 and PET4 to the SUVmax of PET1 and PET2, had predictive value for the overall survival. The area under researcher operation curve (ROC) was between 0.62 and 0.73 (P < 0.01). The MTV and TLG prior to treatment might be used to predict the overall survival, and the area under ROC were both 0.69 (P < 0.001). Sequential FDG PET/CT scanning is useful to predict the overall survival of chemoradiotherapy for ESCC. The metabolic parameters and the derived parameters of FDG PET/CT have predictive values for overall survival.
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