Opportunistic skeletal muscle metrics as prognostic tools in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients candidates to receive Radium-223.

Matteo BaucknehtRita LaiFrancesca D'AmicoAlberto MiceliMaria Isabella DoneganiCristina CampiDaniela SchenoneStefano RaffaSilvia ChiolaFrancesco LanfranchiSara Elena RebuzziElisa ZanardiMalvina CremanteCecilia MariniGiuseppe FornariniSilvia MorbelliMichele PianaGianmario Sambuceti

Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine (2022)

The present data suggest that assessing individual 'patients' SM metrics through an opportunistic operator-independent computational analysis of FDG PET/CT imaging provides prognostic insights in mCRPC patients candidates to receive Radium-223.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
skeletal muscle
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
small cell lung cancer
metabolic syndrome
machine learning
patient reported outcomes
data analysis