Significance of baseline FDG-PET/CT scan as a method of staging regional lymph nodes in patients with operable distal oesophageal or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
Papaxoinis, Georgios Weaver, Jamie M Khoja, Leila Patrao, Ana Stamatopoulou, Sofia Alchawaf, Alia Owen-Holt, Vikki Germetaki, Theodora Kordatou, Zoe Mansoor, Was
Papaxoinis, Georgios
Weaver, Jamie M
Khoja, Leila
Patrao, Ana
Stamatopoulou, Sofia
Alchawaf, Alia
Owen-Holt, Vikki
Germetaki, Theodora
Kordatou, Zoe
Mansoor, Was
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The new American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition (AJCC8) staging is the first to describe separate clinical and pathology staging systems, but still has low performance to predict prognosis in patients with oesophageal/gastroesophageal junction (O/GOJ) adenocarcinoma, who are candidates for surgery. Recent studies have demonstrated that O/GOJ cancer patients with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) avid regional lymph nodes (RLNs) may have poor prognosis. The aim of our study was to examine whether the baseline assessment of the FDG uptake of RLN improves the prognostic accuracy of the new AJCC8 staging.
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2017-05-19
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Significance of baseline FDG-PET/CT scan as a method of staging regional lymph nodes in patients with operable distal oesophageal or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. 2017:1-9 Acta Oncol