Preoperative Nodal 18F-FDG Avidity Rather than Primary Tumor Avidity Determines the Prognosis of Patients with Advanced Gastric Cancer.

Hyun Woo Kwon Liang An Hye Ryeong Kwon Sungsoo Park Sungeun Kim

Published in: Journal of gastric cancer (2018)

18F-FDG avidity of LNs is an independent prognostic factor for predicting RFS. Preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT can be used to determine the risk and prognosis of patients with AGC after curative resection.

Keyphrases

prognostic factors
pet ct
pet imaging
patients undergoing
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
positron emission tomography
squamous cell carcinoma
rectal cancer