Open AccessPrognostic Significance of Pretreatment Staging With 18F-FDG PET in Esophageal Cancer
Author(s) -
Hsi-Huei Lu,
Nan-Ching Chiu,
Ming-Hung Tsai
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.637
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1536-0229
pISSN - 0363-9762
DOI - 10.1097/rlu.0000000000003739
Subject(s) - medicine , esophageal cancer , confidence interval , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , nuclear medicine , cancer staging , hazard ratio , paleontology , biology
Without the routine use of 18F-FDG PET for initial staging of esophageal cancer, it may lead to inaccurate staging and suboptimal treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of pretreatment 18F-FDG PET in nonmetastatic esophageal cancer by comparing the survival between patients with and without pretreatment PET.