Open AccessTo determine the utility of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan in predicting pathological response in operated carcinoma rectum patients after initial neoadjuvant chemoradiation
Author(s) -
Neelam Sharma,
Puneet Takkar,
Abhishek Purkayastha,
Braj Kishore Singh
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_873_17
Subject(s) - medicine , rectum , positron emission tomography , standardized uptake value , nuclear medicine , radiology , receiver operating characteristic , neoadjuvant therapy , chemoradiotherapy , prospective cohort study , adenocarcinoma , cancer , radiation therapy , surgery , breast cancer
The objective of this study was to determine whether [ 18 F]-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography (FDG-PET CT) scan could predict the pathological response in carcinoma rectum patients after surgery in patients receiving neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy (NACCRT).