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Role of Pre-therapeutic (18)F-FDG PET/CT in Guiding the Treatment Strategy and Predicting Prognosis in Patients with Esophageal Carcinoma

Tan TH 1 , Boey CY 1 , Lee BN 1

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  • 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Institute, Putrajaya, Malaysia
Asia Ocean J Nucl Med Biol, 2016;4(2):59-65.
PMID: 27408893 DOI: 10.7508/aojnmb.2016.02.001

Abstract

The present study aimed to evaluate the role of pre-therapeutic (18)fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET-CT) and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) in guiding the treatment strategy and predicting the prognosis of esophageal carcinoma, using the survival data of the patients.

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