Locally advanced gastric cancer: total iodine uptake to predict the response of primary lesion to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Xiaoyuan GaoYang ZhangFei YuanBei DingQianchen MaWenjie YangJing YanLianjun DuBaisong WangFuhua YanMartin SedlmairZilai PanHuan Zhang

Published in: Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology (2018)

The TIU-p can help predict pathological regression in advanced gastric cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In addition, the %ΔTIU-p could be one of the potentially valuable predictive parameters of the PFS time.

Keyphrases

neoadjuvant chemotherapy
locally advanced
rectal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma
sentinel lymph node
lymph node
radiation therapy
phase ii study
magnetic resonance
dual energy
early stage
study protocol