2001年7月
Prognostic predictive value of F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography for patients with pancreatic cancer
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
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- 19
- 号
- 1
- 開始ページ
- 53
- 終了ページ
- 58
- 記述言語
- 英語
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- 出版者・発行元
- PROFESSOR D A SPANDIDOS
(18)Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-18-FDG-PET) is a unique imaging diagnostic tool to evaluate glucose metabolism and hexokinase activity which may reflect the aggressiveness of a tumor. Thirty-seven patients with primary pancreatic cancer were evaluated with F-18-FDG-PET. Thirteen patients underwent resection for the pancreatic cancer and 24 patients had unresectable tumors. The standardized uptake values (SUV) of F-18-FDG in the primary tumors were calculated. No correlations were found between the SUV in the tumors and the metastatic status to the peritoneal/liver, TNM factors/stage, or resectability. The patients were divided into 2 groups with high and low SUV, with the cut-off value being 3.0 (median SUV value of 37 cases). No differences in the probability of survival were observed between the 2 groups in the patients with resectable tumors. However, in the patients with unresectable tumors, those in the high SUV group had a significantly shorter prognosis than those in the low SUV group. Moreover, a multivariate analysis of survival indicated that SUV is an independent prognostic factor for patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer.
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- ISSN : 1019-6439
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000169524400007