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ReviewCancers2023

PET Radiomics and Response to Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

Laura Evangelista, Francesco Fiz, Riccardo Laudicella, Francesco Bianconi, Angelo Castello, Priscilla Guglielmo, Virginia Liberini, Luigi Manco, Viviana Frantellizzi, Alessia Giordano and 4 more

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Review in Cancers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Insights into pet-based radiogenomics in oncology: an updated systematic review.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Laura EvangelistaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Rita Levi Montalcini 4, 20072 Pieve Emanuele, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5955-9488
Francesco FizNuclear Medicine Department, E.O. "Ospedali Galliera", 16128 Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3932-1330
Riccardo LaudicellaUnit of Nuclear Medicine, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, 90100 Palermo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2842-0301
Francesco BianconiDepartment of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Via Goffredo Duranti, 06125 Perugia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3371-1928
Angelo CastelloNuclear Medicine Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 20122 Milan, Italy.
Priscilla GuglielmoNuclear Medicine Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, 35128 Padua, Italy.
Virginia LiberiniNuclear Medicine Department, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, 12100 Cuneo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9416-6965
Luigi MancoMedical Physics Unit, Azienda USL of Ferrara, 45100 Ferrara, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9338-8638
Viviana FrantellizziDepartment of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Anatomo-Pathology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3497-4236
Alessia GiordanoNuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS CROB, Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, 85028 Rionero in Vulture, Italy.
Luca UrsoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine PET/CT Centre, S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, 45100 Rovigo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3007-3898
Stefano PanareoNuclear Medicine Unit, Oncology and Haematology Department, University Hospital of Modena, 41124 Modena, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9222-8752
Barbara PalumboSection of Nuclear Medicine and Health Physics, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 06125 Perugia, Italy.
Luca FilippiNuclear Medicine Section, Santa Maria Goretti Hospital, 04100 Latina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4423-5496

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the existing literature concerning the applications of positron emission tomography (PET) radiomics in lung cancer patient candidates or those undergoing immunotherapy. MATERIALS AND

methodsA systematic review was conducted on databases and web sources. English-language original articles were considered. The title and abstract were independently reviewed to evaluate study inclusion. Duplicate, out-of-topic, and review papers, or editorials, articles, and letters to editors were excluded. For each study, the radiomics analysis was assessed based on the radiomics quality score (RQS 2.0). The review was registered on the PROSPERO database with the number CRD42023402302.

resultsFifteen papers were included, thirteen were qualified as using conventional radiomics approaches, and two used deep learning radiomics. The content of each study was different; indeed, seven papers investigated the potential ability of radiomics to predict PD-L1 expression and tumor microenvironment before starting immunotherapy. Moreover, two evaluated the prediction of response, and four investigated the utility of radiomics to predict the response to immunotherapy. Finally, two papers investigated the prediction of adverse events due to immunotherapy.

conclusionsRadiomics is promising for the evaluation of TME and for the prediction of response to immunotherapy, but some limitations should be overcome.

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immunotherapylung cancerPD-L1PETresponse to therapy

Identifiers

PMID37370869
PMCPMC10296704

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