Prognostic value of pre-treatment F-18-FDG PET-CT in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing radioembolization

• Published in: World journal of gastroenterology : WJG Vol. 22; no. 47; pp. 10406 - 10414
• Main Authors: Abuodeh, Yazan, Naghavi, Arash O, Ahmed, Kamran A, Venkat, Puja S, Kim, Youngchul, Kis, Bela, Choi, Junsung, Biebel, Benjamin, Sweeney, Jennifer, Anaya, Daniel A, Kim, Richard, Malafa, Mokenge, Frakes, Jessica M, Hoffe, Sarah E, El-Haddad, Ghassan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 21.12.2016
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - diagnostic imaging; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - mortality; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - radiotherapy; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular - secondary; Chi-Square Distribution; Disease Progression; Disease-Free Survival; Embolization, Therapeutic - adverse effects; Embolization, Therapeutic - methods; Female; Florida; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 - administration & dosage; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Liver Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Liver Neoplasms - mortality; Liver Neoplasms - pathology; Liver Neoplasms - radiotherapy; Male; Microspheres; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Predictive Value of Tests; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiopharmaceuticals - administration & dosage; Radiopharmaceuticals - adverse effects; Retrospective Studies; Retrospective Study; Risk Factors; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Yttrium Radioisotopes - administration & dosage; Yttrium Radioisotopes - adverse effects; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Biomarker; F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET; Prognosis; Radioembolization

AIM To evaluate the value of pre-treatment 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with HCC following liver radioembolization.METHODS We identified 34 patients with HCC who underwent an FDG PET/CT scan prior to hepatic radioembolization at our institution between 2009 and 2013. Patients wereseen in clinic one mo...