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Godefroy J, Godefroy R, Vedder K, Altura Y, Chicheportiche A, Ben-Haim S, Goldstein G. Distribution and predictors of F-18-FDG uptake values of non-malignant cervical lymph nodes in pediatric patients. EJNMMI Res 2024; 14:52. [PMID: 38809472 PMCID: PMC11136896 DOI: 10.1186/s13550-024-01110-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND F-18-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT is routinely used for staging, evaluation of response to treatment and follow-up of most pediatric malignancies. Cervical lymph nodes can be involved in some pediatric malignancies, but increased uptake in non-malignant cervical lymph nodes is not exceptional in this population. The aim of the present study is to identify predictors of the maximum uptake in non-malignant cervical lymph nodes in the pediatric population. METHODS 191 FDG PET/CT studies of pediatric patients without malignant involvement of cervical lymph nodes were retrospectively reviewed. The maximal Standard Uptake Value in the hottest cervical lymph node (SUVmaxCLN), as well as demographic, technical and imaging variables were recorded. The predictive effect of those variables on SUVmaxCLN was estimated using linear regression models. RESULTS Increased FDG activity in cervical nodes was observed in 136/191 studies (71%). The mean SUVmaxCLN was 2.2 ± 1.3. Ipsilateral palatine tonsil SUVmax, mean liver uptake, and treatment status were all statistically significant predictors of SUVmaxCLN. However, in multivariate regression analysis, only ipsilateral palatine tonsil SUVmax was found to be significant. In addition, SUVmaxCLN was greater than the mean liver uptake in 50% of all studies. This proportion was higher in younger children, reaching 77% of studies of children younger than six years. CONCLUSION SUVmax in ipsilateral palatine tonsil is a strong predictor of the maximal uptake value of non-malignant cervical lymph nodes in children. The intensity of uptake in non-malignant cervical lymph nodes is frequently higher than liver uptake in children, and this tendency increases for younger patients. TRIAL WAS REGISTERED In the internal hospital registry under TRN 0209-22-HMO on date 23.04.2022.
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- Jeremy Godefroy
- Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
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- Department of Economics, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Medical Biophysics and Nuclear Medicine, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- University College London, London, UK
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- The Dyna and Fala Weinstock Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Kurch L, Kluge R. Update on FDG-PET in pediatric lymphoma. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING : OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE (AIMN) [AND] THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RADIOPHARMACOLOGY (IAR), [AND] SECTION OF THE SOCIETY OF... 2024; 68:58-69. [PMID: 38587361 DOI: 10.23736/s1824-4785.24.03560-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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Lymphoma represent the third most common malignant disease in childhood and adolescence. They are divided into pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (P-HL) and pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma (P-NHL). In P-HL, excellent cure rates are achieved through combined modality treatment using chemotherapy and radiotherapy. For more than 20 years, FDG-PET has been an integral part of the treatment and guides its intensity through improved staging and precise assessment of chemotherapy response. In P-NHL, good cure rates are achieved with chemotherapy alone. At present FDG-PET plays only a subordinate role in the treatment setting. Its potential to contribute to treatment management is far from being fully utilised. In this article, the current status of FDG-PET in pediatric lymphoma is presented in detail. The core elements are the sections on staging and response assessment. In addition, challenges and pitfalls are discussed and future developments are outlined.
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- Lars Kurch
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany -
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Motmaen I, Sereda S, Brobeil A, Shankar A, Braeuninger A, Hasenclever D, Gattenlöhner S. Deep-learning based classification of a tumor marker for prognosis on Hodgkin's disease. Eur J Haematol 2023; 111:722-728. [PMID: 37549921 DOI: 10.1111/ejh.14066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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PURPOSE Hodgkin's disease is a common malignant disorder in adolescent patients. Although most patients are cured, approximately 10%-15% of patients experience a relapse or have resistant disease. Furthermore, there are no definitive molecular predictors for early identification of patients at high risk of treatment failure to first line therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the deep learning-based classifier model of medical image classification to predict clinical outcome that may help in appropriate therapeutic decisions. METHODS Eighty-three FFPE biopsy specimens from patients with Hodgkin's disease were stratified according to the patient's qPET scores, stained with picrosirius red dye and digitalized by whole slide image scanning. The resulting whole slide images were cut into tiles and annotated by two classes based on the collagen fibers' degree of coloring with picrosirius red. The neural network (YOLOv4) was then trained with the annotated data. Training was performed with 30 cases. Prognostic power of the weakly stained picrosirius red fibers was evaluated with 53 cases. The same neural network was trained with MMP9 stained tissue slides from the same cases and the quantification results were compared with the variant from the picrosirius red cases. RESULTS There was a weak monotonically increasing relationship by parametric ANOVA between the qPET groups and the percentages of weakly stained fibers (p = .0185). The qPET-positive cases showed an average of 18% of weakly stained fibers, and the qPET-negative cases 10%-14%. Detection performance showed an AUC of 0.79. CONCLUSIONS Picrosirius red shows distinct associations as a prognostic metric candidate of disease progression in Hodgkin's disease cases using whole slide images but not sufficiently as a prognostic device.
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- Ila Motmaen
- Department of Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Children and Young People's Cancer Services, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Pathology, Justus-Liebig-University, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, Giessen, Germany
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Zhang P, Chen W, Zhao K, Qiu X, Li T, Zhu X, Sun P, Wang C, Song Y. Tumor to liver maximum standardized uptake value ratio of FDG-PET/CT parameters predicts tumor treatment response and survival of stage III non-small cell lung cancer. BMC Med Imaging 2023; 23:107. [PMID: 37582701 PMCID: PMC10428530 DOI: 10.1186/s12880-023-01067-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND To assess the predictive values of primary tumor FDG uptake for patients with inoperable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). METHODS A total of 107 patients with diagnosis of stage III NSCLC and CCRT were enrolled. The tumor maximum uptake value (SUVmax) was standardized by calculating several ratios between tumor and each background tissues. The receiver operating characteristics curve (ROC) was used to compare the predictive power of prognostic models. The tumor objective response rate (ORR) and overall survival (OS) were compared and analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method and univariate and multivariate Cox regression models. RESULTS The areas under ROC curve (AUCs) ranged from 0.72 to 0.81 among these tumor SUVmax and standardized SUVmax ratios, and the tumor SUVmax and tumor SUVmax-to-liver SUVmean ratio (TLMR) were more predictive of ORR (AUC, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.73-0.88 for tumor SUVmax and AUC, 0.84; 95%CI, 0.76-0.91 for TLMR) than any of other SUVmax ratios. The patients with lower tumor SUVmax, SUVmean and SUVmax ratios had a significantly better OS than those with their corresponding higher ones. Moreover, both univariate and multivariable analyses revealed that TLMR was significantly associated with better ORR and OS after adjustment with other prognostic variables. CONCLUSIONS TLMR, a standardized tumor SUVmax, was an independent prognostic predictor for tumor ORR and OS of patients with stage III NSCLC after CCRT.
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- Pengfei Zhang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Training Education, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
- Cancer Center, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China.
- Department of Radiation and Medical Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China.
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Mhlanga J, Alazraki A, Cho SY, Lai H, Nadel H, Pandit-Taskar N, Qi J, Rajderkar D, Voss S, Watal P, McCarten K. Imaging recommendations in pediatric lymphoma: A COG Diagnostic Imaging Committee/SPR Oncology Committee White Paper. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2023; 70 Suppl 4:e29968. [PMID: 36114654 PMCID: PMC10641880 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are both malignancies originating in the lymphatic system and both affect children, but many features differ considerably, impacting workup and management. This paper provides consensus-based imaging recommendations for evaluation of patients with HL and NHL at diagnosis and response assessment for both interim and end of therapy (follow-up).
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- Joyce Mhlanga
- Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Section, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Health of Orange County, Orange, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Molecular imaging and Therapy Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York, USA
- Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, New York, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin and Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Pediatric Radiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, Florida, USA
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- Diagnostic Imaging and Pediatrics, Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core, Lincoln, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Tutino F, Giovannini E, Chiola S, Giovacchini G, Ciarmiello A. Assessment of Response to Immunotherapy in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma: Towards Quantifying Changes in Tumor Burden Using FDG-PET/CT. J Clin Med 2023; 12:jcm12103498. [PMID: 37240602 DOI: 10.3390/jcm12103498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are currently the standard of care for many advanced solid tumors, and they have been recently approved for the treatment of relapsed/refractory Hodgkin lymphoma and primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma. Assessments of the response to immunotherapy may be complicated by the occurrence of the flare/pseudoprogression phenomenon, consisting of initial tumor enlargement and even the appearance of new lesions, followed by a response, which may initially be indistinguishable from true progression. There have been efforts to characterize and capture the new patterns of response observed during immunotherapy, namely, pseudoprogression and delayed response, and several immune-related response criteria have been proposed. Confirming progression on a subsequent scan and measuring the total tumor burden are both common in immune-related criteria. Due to the peculiarity of hematologic malignancies, lymphoma-specific immune-related criteria have been developed (LYRIC), and they have been evaluated in research studies in comparison to the Lugano Classification. In this review work, we illustrate the evolution of the response criteria in lymphomas from the first CT-based criteria to the development of the PET-based Lugano Classification, further refined to take into account the flare phenomenon encountered during immunotherapy. We also describe the additional contribution of PET-derived volumetric parameters to the interpretation of responses during immunotherapy.
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- Francesca Tutino
- Nuclear Medicine Unit, Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea, Via Vittorio Veneto 170, 19124 La Spezia, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Unit, Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea, Via Vittorio Veneto 170, 19124 La Spezia, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 16132 Genoa, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Unit, Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea, Via Vittorio Veneto 170, 19124 La Spezia, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Unit, Ospedale Civile Sant'Andrea, Via Vittorio Veneto 170, 19124 La Spezia, Italy
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Pomykala KL, Fendler WP, Vermesh O, Umutlu L, Herrmann K, Seifert R. Molecular Imaging of Lymphoma: Future Directions and Perspectives. Semin Nucl Med 2023; 53:449-456. [PMID: 36344325 DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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More than 250,000 patients die from Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma each year. Currently, molecular imaging with 18F-FDG-PET/CT is the standard of care for lymphoma staging and therapy response assessment. In this review, we will briefly summarize the role of molecular imaging for lymphoma diagnosis, staging, outcome prediction, and prognostication. We discuss future directions in response assessment and surveillance with quantitative PET parameters, the utility of interim assessment, and the differences with response assessment to immunomodulatory therapy. Lastly, we will cover innovations in the field regarding novel tracers and artificial intelligence.
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- Kelsey L Pomykala
- Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Czibor S, Carr R, Redondo F, Auewarakul CU, Cerci JJ, Paez D, Fanti S, Györke T. Prognostic parameters on baseline and interim [ 18 F]FDG-PET/computed tomography in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients. Nucl Med Commun 2023; 44:291-301. [PMID: 36705233 PMCID: PMC9994851 DOI: 10.1097/mnm.0000000000001664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE 2-[ 18 F]fluoro-2-deoxy- d -glucose PET/computed tomography ([ 18 F]FDG-PET/CT) is a widely used imaging method in the management of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL). Our aim was to investigate the prognostic performance of different PET biomarkers in a multicenter setting. METHODS We investigated baseline volumetric values [metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG), also normalized for body weight] segmented with three different methods [>SUV4 (glob4); 41% isocontour (41pc), and a gradient-based lesion growing algorithm (grad)] and interim parameters [Deauville score, maximal standardized uptake value (ΔSUVmax), modified qPET, and ratio PET (rPET)] alongside clinical parameters (stage, revised International Prognostic Index), using 24-month progression-free survival as the clinical endpoint. Receiver operating characteristics analyses were performed to define optimal cutoff points for the continuous PET parameters. RESULTS A total of 107 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients were included (54 women; mean age: 53.7 years). MTV and TLG calculations showed good correlation among glob4, 41pc, and grad methods; however, optimal cutoff points were markedly different.Significantly different PFS was observed between low- and high-risk groups according to baseline MTV, body weight-adjusted (bwa) MTV, TLG, bwaTLG, as well as interim parameters Deauville score, ΔSUVmax, mqPET, and rPET. Univariate Cox regression analyses showed hazard ratios (HRs) lowest for bwaMTVglob4 (HR = 2.3) and highest for rPET (HR = 9.09). In a multivariate Cox-regression model, rPET was shown to be an independent predictor of PFS ( P = 0.041; HR = 9.15). Combined analysis showed that ΔSUVmax positive patients with high MTV formed a group with distinctly poor PFS (35.3%). CONCLUSION Baseline MTV and TLG values and optimal cutoff points achieved with different segmentation methods varied markedly and showed a limited prognostic impact. Interim PET/CT parameters provided more accurate prognostic information with semiquantitative 'Deauville-like' parameters performing best in the present study.
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- Sándor Czibor
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Hematology, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, London, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine and Public Health, HRH Princess Chulabhorn College of Medical Science, Chulabhorn Royal Academy, Bangkok, Thailand
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- PET/CT Department at Quanta Diagnóstico e Terapia, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section, Division of Human Health, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Application, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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- Metropolitan Nuclear Medicine, Policlinico S. Orsola, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Outcomes of Patients with Positive Interim Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Continuing ABVD in the Clinical Setting. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15061760. [PMID: 36980646 PMCID: PMC10046293 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15061760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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Recent prospective clinical trial data suggest that patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma who continue treatment with ABVD, despite failing to attain a complete metabolic response on interim PET (PET2+), may fare better than previously published. We describe the outcomes of PET2+ patients who continued ABVD and compare the performance of a quantitative measure based on the lesion-to-liver SUV ratio (LLS qPET2+) to that of the subjective Deauville criteria (dvPET2+). We analyzed all patients with newly diagnosed advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma treated with frontline ABVD at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center between 2008 and 2017. Eligibility was set to correspond with the RATHL inclusion criteria. Images were reviewed by two nuclear medicine physicians and discordant cases were resolved with a third expert in consensus. qPET2+ was defined as LLS ≥ 1.3. We identified 227 patients of whom 25% (57) were qPET2+, but only 14% (31) were dvPET2+. Forty-eight patients (84%) continued ABVD with a 3-year PFS of 70% for qPET2+ and 64% for dvPET2+. In conclusion, interim PET interpretation in clinical practice may be associated with a higher rate of scans deemed positive. Irrespective of the criteria for PET2 positivity, a subset of patients may continue ABVD without a dismal outcome.
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Ladbury C, Eustace N, Amini A, Dandapani S, Williams T. Biology-Guided Radiation Therapy. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2023; 32:553-568. [PMID: 37182992 DOI: 10.1016/j.soc.2023.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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Biology-guided radiation therapy is an emerging field whereby delivery of external beam radiotherapy incorporates biological/molecular imaging to inform radiation treatment. At present, there is evidence for the use of functional imaging such as PET to evaluate treatment response in patients both during and after radiation treatment as well as to provide a method of adapting or selecting patient-specific treatments. Examples in thoracic, gastrointestinal, and hematologic malignancies are provided. Improvements in PET metrics, thresholds, and novel radiotracers will further move this novel field forward.
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Prognostic value of baseline and early response FDG-PET/CT in patients with refractory and relapsed aggressive B-cell lymphoma undergoing CAR-T cell therapy. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2023:10.1007/s00432-023-04587-4. [PMID: 36662305 PMCID: PMC10356653 DOI: 10.1007/s00432-023-04587-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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PURPOSE Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells are a viable treatment option for patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) aggressive B-cell lymphomas. The prognosis of patients who relapse after CAR-T cell treatment is dismal and factors predicting outcomes need to be identified. Our aim was to assess the value of FDG-PET/CT in terms of predicting patient outcomes. METHODS Twenty-two patients with r/r B-cell lymphoma who received CAR-T cell treatment with tisagenlecleucel (n = 17) or axicabtagene ciloleucel (n = 5) underwent quantitative FDG-PET/CT before (PET-0) and 1 month after infusion of CAR-T cells (PET-1). PET-1 was classified as complete metabolic response (CMR, Deauville score 1-3) or non-CMR (Deauville score 4-5). RESULTS At the time of PET-1, 12/22 (55%) patients showed CMR, ten (45%) patients non-CMR. 7/12 (58%) CMR patients relapsed after a median of 223 days, three of them (25%) died. 9/10 (90%) non-CMR patients developed relapse or progressive disease after a median of 91 days, eight of them (80%) died. CMR patients demonstrated a significantly lower median total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV) in PET-0 (1 ml) than non-CMR patients (225 ml). CONCLUSION Our results confirm the prognostic value of PET-1. 42% of all CMR patients are still in remission 1 year after CAR T-cell treatment. 90% of the non-CMR patients relapsed, indicating the need for early intervention. Higher TMTV before CAR-T cell infusion was associated with lower chances of CMR.
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Keijzer K, Niezink AG, de Boer JW, van Doesum JA, Noordzij W, van Meerten T, van Dijk LV. Semi-automated 18F-FDG PET segmentation methods for tumor volume determination in Non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients: a literature review, implementation and multi-threshold evaluation. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2023; 21:1102-1114. [PMID: 36789266 PMCID: PMC9900370 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Revised: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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In the treatment of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), multiple therapeutic options are available. Improving outcome predictions are essential to optimize treatment. The metabolic active tumor volume (MATV) has shown to be a prognostic factor in NHL. It is usually retrieved using semi-automated thresholding methods based on standardized uptake values (SUV), calculated from 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (18F-FDG PET) images. However, there is currently no consensus method for NHL. The aim of this study was to review literature on different segmentation methods used, and to evaluate selected methods by using an in house created software tool. A software tool, MUltiple SUV Threshold (MUST)-segmenter was developed where tumor locations are identified by placing seed-points on the PET images, followed by subsequent region growing. Based on a literature review, 9 SUV thresholding methods were selected and MATVs were extracted. The MUST-segmenter was utilized in a cohort of 68 patients with NHL. Differences in MATVs were assessed with paired t-tests, and correlations and distributions figures. High variability and significant differences between the MATVs based on different segmentation methods (p < 0.05) were observed in the NHL patients. Median MATVs ranged from 35 to 211 cc. No consensus for determining MATV is available based on the literature. Using the MUST-segmenter with 9 selected SUV thresholding methods, we demonstrated a large and significant variation in MATVs. Identifying the most optimal segmentation method for patients with NHL is essential to further improve predictions of toxicity, response, and treatment outcomes, which can be facilitated by the MUST-segmenter.
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Key Words
- 18F-FDG PET
- AT, adaptive thresholding methods
- CAR, chimeric antigen receptor
- CT, computed tomography
- DICOM, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
- DLBCL, Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
- EANM, European Association of Nuclear Medicine
- EARL, EANM Research Ltd.
- FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose
- HL, Hodgkin lymphoma
- IMG, robustness across image reconstruction methods
- IQR, interquartile range
- LBCL, Large B-cell lymphoma
- LDH, lactate dehydrogenase
- MAN, clinician based evaluation using manual segmentations
- MATV, Metabolic active tumor volume
- MIP, Maximum Intensity Projection
- MUST, Multiple SUV Thresholding
- Metabolic tumor volume
- NHL, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- OBS, robustness across observers
- OS, overall survival
- PD-L1, programmed cell death ligand-1
- PET segmentation
- PET, positron emission tomography
- PFS, progression free survival
- PROG, progression vs non-progression
- PTCL, Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
- PTLD, Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder
- QS, quality scores
- SOFT, robustness across software
- SUV thresholding
- SUV, standardized uptake value
- Segmentation software
- TCL, T-cell lymphoma
- UMCG, University Medical Center Groningen
- VOI, volume of interest
- cc, cubic centimeter
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- Kylie Keijzer
- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands,Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Hematology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713GZ Groningen, the Netherlands,Corresponding author.
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Brink A, Hlongwa KN, More S. The Impact of PET/CT on Paediatric Oncology. Diagnostics (Basel) 2023; 13:diagnostics13020192. [PMID: 36673002 PMCID: PMC9857884 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13020192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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This review paper will discuss the use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in paediatric oncology. Functional imaging with PET/CT has proven useful to guide treatment by accurately staging disease and limiting unnecessary treatments by determining the metabolic response to treatment. 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (2-[18F]FDG) PET/CT is routinely used in patients with lymphoma. We highlight specific considerations in the paediatric population with lymphoma. The strengths and weaknesses for PET/CT tracers that compliment Meta-[123I]iodobenzylguanidine ([123I]mIBG) for the imaging of neuroblastoma are summarized. 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT has increasingly been used in the staging and evaluation of disease response in sarcomas. The current recommendations for the use of PET/CT in sarcomas are given and potential future developments and highlighted. 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT in combination with conventional imaging is currently the standard for disease evaluation in children with Langerhans-cell Histiocytosis (LCH) and the non-LCH disease spectrum. The common pitfalls of 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT in this setting are discussed.
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Zwezerijnen GJC, Eertink JJ, Ferrández MC, Wiegers SE, Burggraaff CN, Lugtenburg PJ, Heymans MW, de Vet HCW, Zijlstra JM, Boellaard R. Reproducibility of [18F]FDG PET/CT liver SUV as reference or normalisation factor. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2023; 50:486-493. [PMID: 36166080 PMCID: PMC9816285 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-022-05977-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Although visual and quantitative assessments of [18F]FDG PET/CT studies typically rely on liver uptake value as a reference or normalisation factor, consensus or consistency in measuring [18F]FDG uptake is lacking. Therefore, we evaluate the variation of several liver standardised uptake value (SUV) measurements in lymphoma [18F]FDG PET/CT studies using different uptake metrics. METHODS PET/CT scans from 34 lymphoma patients were used to calculate SUVmaxliver, SUVpeakliver and SUVmeanliver as a function of (1) volume-of-interest (VOI) size, (2) location, (3) imaging time point and (4) as a function of total metabolic tumour volume (MTV). The impact of reconstruction protocol on liver uptake is studied on 15 baseline lymphoma patient scans. The effect of noise on liver SUV was assessed using full and 25% count images of 15 lymphoma scans. RESULTS Generally, SUVmaxliver and SUVpeakliver were 38% and 16% higher compared to SUVmeanliver. SUVmaxliver and SUVpeakliver increased up to 31% and 15% with VOI size while SUVmeanliver remained unchanged with the lowest variability for the largest VOI size. Liver uptake metrics were not affected by VOI location. Compared to baseline, liver uptake metrics were 15-18% and 9-18% higher at interim and EoT PET, respectively. SUVliver decreased with larger total MTVs. SUVmaxliver and SUVpeakliver were affected by reconstruction protocol up to 62%. SUVmax and SUVpeak moved 22% and 11% upward between full and 25% count images. CONCLUSION SUVmeanliver was most robust against VOI size, location, reconstruction protocol and image noise level, and is thus the most reproducible metric for liver uptake. The commonly recommended 3 cm diameter spherical VOI-based SUVmeanliver values were only slightly more variable than those seen with larger VOI sizes and are sufficient for SUVmeanliver measurements in future studies. TRIAL REGISTRATION EudraCT: 2006-005,174-42, 01-08-2008.
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- Gerben J C Zwezerijnen
- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hematology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hematology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Methodology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Methodology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Hematology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Cancer Center Amsterdam, Imaging and Biomarkers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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CT radiomics to predict Deauville score 4 positive and negative Hodgkin lymphoma manifestations. Sci Rep 2022; 12:20008. [PMID: 36411307 PMCID: PMC9678888 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24227-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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18F-FDG-PET/CT is standard to assess response in Hodgkin lymphoma by quantifying metabolic activity with the Deauville score. PET/CT, however, is time-consuming, cost-extensive, linked to high radiation and has a low availability. As an alternative, we investigated radiomics from non-contrast-enhanced computed tomography (NECT) scans. 75 PET/CT examinations of 43 patients on two different scanners were included. Target lesions were classified as Deauville score 4 positive (DS4+) or negative (DS4-) based on their SUVpeak and then segmented in NECT images. From these segmentations, 107 features were extracted with PyRadiomics. All further statistical analyses were then performed scanner-wise: differences between DS4+ and DS4- manifestations were assessed with the Mann-Whitney-U-test and single feature performances with the ROC-analysis. To further verify the reliability of the results, the number of features was reduced using different techniques. The feature median showed a high sensitivity for DS4+ manifestations on both scanners (scanner A: 0.91, scanner B: 0.85). It furthermore was the only feature that remained in both datasets after applying different feature reduction techniques. The feature median from NECT concordantly has a high sensitivity for DS4+ Hodgkin manifestations on two different scanners and thus could provide a surrogate for increased metabolic activity in PET/CT.
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Lopci E, Elia C, Catalfamo B, Burnelli R, De Re V, Mussolin L, Piccardo A, Cistaro A, Borsatti E, Zucchetta P, Bianchi M, Buffardi S, Farruggia P, Garaventa A, Sala A, Vinti L, Mauz-Koerholz C, Mascarin M. Prospective Evaluation of Different Methods for Volumetric Analysis on [ 18F]FDG PET/CT in Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11206223. [PMID: 36294544 PMCID: PMC9605658 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11206223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Rationale: Therapy response evaluation by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT (FDG PET) has become a powerful tool for the discrimination of responders from non-responders in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Recently, volumetric analyses have been regarded as a valuable tool for disease prognostication and biological characterization in cancer. Given the multitude of methods available for volumetric analysis in HL, the AIEOP Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group has designed a prospective analysis of the Italian cohort enrolled in the EuroNet-PHL-C2 trial. Methods: Primarily, the study aimed to compare the different segmentation techniques used for volumetric assessment in HL patients at baseline (PET1) and during therapy: early (PET2) and late assessment (PET3). Overall, 50 patients and 150 scans were investigated for the current analysis. A dedicated software was used to semi-automatically delineate contours of the lesions by using different threshold methods. More specifically, four methods were applied: (1) fixed 41% threshold of the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) within the respective lymphoma site (V41%), (2) fixed absolute SUV threshold of 2.5 (V2.5); (3) SUVmax(lesion)/SUVmean liver >1.5 (Vliver); (4) adaptive method (AM). All parameters obtained from the different methods were analyzed with respect to response. Results: Among the different methods investigated, the strongest correlation was observed between AM and Vliver (rho > 0.9; p < 0.001 for SUVmean, MTV and TLG at all scan timing), along with V2.5 and AM or Vliver (rho 0.98, p < 0.001 for TLG at baseline; rho > 0.9; p < 0.001 for SUVmean, MTV and TLG at PET2 and PET3, respectively). To determine the best segmentation method, we applied logistic regression and correlated different results with Deauville scores at late evaluation. Logistic regression demonstrated that MTV (metabolic tumor volume) and TLG (total lesion glycolysis) computation according to V2.5 and Vliver significantly correlated to response to treatment (p = 0.01 and 0.04 for MTV and 0.03 and 0.04 for TLG, respectively). SUVmean also resulted in significant correlation as absolute value or variation. Conclusions: The best correlation for volumetric analysis was documented for AM and Vliver, followed by V2.5. The volumetric analyses obtained from V2.5 and Vliver significantly correlated to response to therapy, proving to be preferred thresholds in our pediatric HL cohort.
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- Egesta Lopci
- Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS—Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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- AYA and Pediatric Radiotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, 33081 Aviano, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Unit, University Hospital “Mater Domini, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
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- Pediatric Onco-Hematologic Unit, University Hospital S. Anna, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Immunopathology and Cancer Biomarkers Unit, Department of Translational Research, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, 33081 Aviano, Italy
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- Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Clinic, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, 35128 Padua, Italy
- Institute of Pediatric Research-Fondazione Città della Speranza, 35127 Padua, Italy
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Galliera Hospital, 16128 Genoa, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Division, Salus Alliance Medical, 16128 Genoa, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, 33081 Aviano, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Padova University Hospital, 35128 Padua, Italy
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- Onco-Hematology Division, Regina Margherita Hospital, 10126 Torino, Italy
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- Department of Oncology, Hospital Santobono-Pausilipon, 80123 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Onco-Hematology, A.R.N.A.S. Ospedali Civico, 90127 Palermo, Italy
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- Pediatric Oncology Unit, I RCCS G.Gaslini Hospital, 16147 Genoa, Italy
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- Pediatric Division, Hospital San Gerardo, 20900 Monza, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Ospedale Bambino Gesù, IRCSS, 00165 Rome, Italy
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- Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie, Zentrum für Kinderheilkunde der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 35392 Giessen, Germany
- Medizinische Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle, Germany
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- AYA and Pediatric Radiotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano (CRO), IRCCS, 33081 Aviano, Italy
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Badawe EM, Abdel Gawad H, El-Nagdy MS, Khalil MM. Variations induced by body weight and background lesion normalization in standardized uptake value estimated by F18-FDG PET/CT. Eur J Hybrid Imaging 2022; 6:22. [PMID: 36224438 PMCID: PMC9556683 DOI: 10.1186/s41824-022-00142-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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AIM This work aims to study the impact of different SUV variants in terms of mean and maximum measures as well as various normalization methods with respect to body weight, body mass index, body surface area, and lean body mass in patients with lymphoma. METHODS Sixty-nine patients (34 male-35 female) were retrospectively selected. All patients had undergone F18-FDG PET/CT using the standard imaging protocol. In the first part of this study, SUVmean and SUVmax of patients' lesions and three background sites including liver, aorta, and muscle were determined. Then, the normalization of lesion SUV to body weight and body background sites was performed. The ratio of lesion SUVmax to body background sites (muscle, aorta, and liver) SUVmax was determined in addition to the ratio of lesion SUVmean to body background sites SUVmean. The second part of the study included the calculations of the body mass index (BMI), body surface area (BSA), and lean body mass (LBM). The normalization of lesion, liver, aorta, and muscle SUV to BMI, BSA, and LBM was calculated and compared to each other. RESULTS After performing the appropriate statistical calculations, the results showed that there is a significant difference in SUV measurements between the three background sites. Lesions normalized to the liver were significantly lower than those normalized to aorta and muscle and the results also showed a higher magnitude of lesions normalized to muscle in comparison to the aorta. The SUVmax and SUVmean normalized to different body weight indices showed the lowest variation with BSA and BMI while being increasingly higher with lean body mass using the two methods James and Janmahasatian, respectively, and then highest with body weight. CONCLUSION The SUVmax and SUVmean showed lower variance in comparison to other background regions. Less variation was also remarkable in SUVmean normalized to BSA and Janma lean mass and also when SUVmax is normalized to James lean body mass. The SUVmax normalized to lean (i.e., James) as well as SUVmean normalized to lean (i.e., Janma) and BSA showed a significant independence with body weight.
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- Eman M. Badawe
- grid.412093.d0000 0000 9853 2750Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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- grid.7776.10000 0004 0639 9286Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al-Aini Center for Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (NEMROK), Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- grid.412093.d0000 0000 9853 2750Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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- grid.412093.d0000 0000 9853 2750Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt ,grid.507995.70000 0004 6073 8904School of Biotechnology, Badr University in Cairo (BUC), Badr City, Cairo Egypt
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Elhamady HY, Mostafa HM, Elsayed HF, Abo-ElAzm OM, Hussein MH. Deauville score versus ratio Deauville score in the interpretation of interim 18F-FDG PET-CT and in prediction of outcome in children with FDG-avid extra-nodal lymphomas. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE 2022. [DOI: 10.1186/s43055-022-00899-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Background
Pediatric lymphoma is a common hematological neoplasm, representing the third most frequent childhood malignancy. 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose–positron emission tomography has been found to be useful in lymphoma staging, prediction of prognosis and risk stratification of lymphoma patients. Although the interpretation of interim PET (after two cycles of chemotherapy) using the qualitative visual method of 5-point Deauville score has been widely accepted, semiquantitative methods of interpretation were evaluated by many studies and showed a better prediction of prognosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic role of the semiquantitative ratio Deauville score (rDS), defined as the ratio between target lesion and liver maximum standardized uptake values in children with FDG-avid extra-nodal lymphomas, undergoing interim FDG-PET/CT, and to compare it with the 5-point Deauville score (5p-DS).
Methods
This prospective study included 89 children with FDG-avid extra-nodal lymphoma. Interim PET was interpreted using both visual (5p-DS) and the semiquantitative method (rDS). The visual method depends on visual comparison of FDG uptake between lesions and liver as a reference organ for activity and considered lesions with activity higher than liver to be positive, while the semiquantitative method depends on making a ratio between the most active lesion and liver SUVmax. Receiver operating characteristic approach was applied to identify the optimal cut-point of rDS with respect to response to therapy and prognosis, and the prognostic significance of rDS was compared with 5p-DS.
Results
The ROC analysis for rDS as a predictor of progression showed an optimal cut-point of 1.25. Both 5p-DS and rDS were strong outcome predictors. Patients with negative 5p-DS and patients with rDS < 1.25 had a similar 3-year PFS (87%). Patients with a positive 5p-DS had a 3-year PFS of 67.4%, while patients with rDS > 1.25 had a 3-year PFS of 60%.
Conclusions
rDS could be suggested as an accurate prognostic factor in children with lymphoma undergoing interim FDG-PET/CT. However, larger studies with more homogenous sample regarding histopathological subtypes and chemotherapy lines are needed to confirm these data.
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Guja KE, Nadel H, Iagaru A. Overview and Recent Advances in 18F-FDG PET/CT for Evaluation of Pediatric Lymphoma. Semin Nucl Med 2022. [DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Quantitative Plasma Proteomics to Identify Candidate Biomarkers of Relapse in Pediatric/Adolescent Hodgkin Lymphoma. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23179911. [PMID: 36077307 PMCID: PMC9456176 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23179911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Classical pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) is a rare malignancy. Therapeutic regimens for its management may be optimized by establishing treatment response early on. The aim of this study was to identify plasma protein biomarkers enabling the prediction of relapse in pediatric/adolescent HL patients treated under the pediatric EuroNet-PHL-C2 trial. We used untargeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based proteomics at the time of diagnosis—before any therapy—as semiquantitative method to profile plasma proteins specifically associated with relapse in 42 children with nodular sclerosing HL. In both the exploratory and the validation cohorts, six proteins (apolipoprotein E, C4b-binding protein α chain, clusterin, fibrinogen γ chain, prothrombin, and vitronectin) were more abundant in the plasma of patients whose HL relapsed (|fold change| ≥ 1.2, p < 0.05, Student’s t-test). Predicting protein function with the Gene Ontology classification model, the proteins were included in four biological processes (p < 0.01). Using immunoblotting and Luminex assays, we validated two of these candidate biomarkers—C4b-binding protein α chain and clusterin—linked to innate immune response function (GO:0045087). This study identified C4b-binding protein α chain and clusterin as candidate early plasma biomarkers of HL relapse, and important for the purpose of shedding light on the molecular scenario associated with immune response in patients treated under the EuroNet-PHL-C2 trial.
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April G, De Bruycker JJ, Decaluwe H, Haddad E, Lambert R, Turpin S. Evaluation of physiological Waldeyer's ring, mediastinal blood pool, thymic, bone marrow, splenic and hepatic activity with 18F-FDG PET/CT: exploration of normal range among pediatric patients. Ann Nucl Med 2022; 36:661-673. [PMID: 35643969 DOI: 10.1007/s12149-022-01748-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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INTRODUCTION While 18F-FDG PET/CT pediatrics applications have increased in number and indications, few studies have addressed normal maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) of referral organs in children. The purpose of this study is to assess these in a cohort of pediatric patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS 285 18F-FDG PET/CT scans in 229 patients were reviewed. SUVmax were assessed for mediastinal blood pool (MBP), thymus (T), liver (L), spleen (S), bone marrow (BM) and Waldeyer's Ring (Wald). L/MBP and S/L ratios were calculated. Same day complete blood counts (CBC) were available for 132 studies and compared to BM and S. Means, standard deviations and correlation coefficients with age, weight and body surface area (BSA) were calculated. RESULTS Weak correlation with age, weight or BSA was found for Wald. Strong correlations with weight/BSA more than with age were demonstrated for MBP, L and BM and moderate for S and T. After initial decrease between age 0 and 2, thymic activity peaked at age 11 years then involuted. No correlation was found between CBC ad BM or S. In 28 studies, L was less or equal to MBP. In 74 S was superior to L. CONCLUSIONS Referral organs 18F-FDG uptake varies in children more in relation with weight and BSA than with age for key referral organs, such as L, S and MBP. In a significant number of studies, L activity may impede evaluation of treatment response in comparison with MBP or inflammation/infection evaluation in comparison with S.
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- Geneviève April
- Medical Imaging Department-Division of Nuclear Medicine, Laval University, CHU de Québec, Hôtel-Dieu, 11 Côte du Palais, Québec, QC, G1R 2J6, Canada
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- Pediatrics Department Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division, University of Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Pediatrics Department Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division, University of Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Pediatrics Department Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Division, University of Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Medical Imaging Department-Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Medical Imaging Department-Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Montreal, CHU Ste-Justine, 3175 Chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine Montreal, Montreal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada.
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Rozwod K, Mauz-Körholz C, Heine P, Gattenlöhner S, Langer C, Steiner D, Krombach G, Georgi TW, Kallenberg K, Sabri O, Körholz D, Kluge R, Bartelt JM, Stoevesandt D, Kurch L. Waldeyer's ring involvement in a young patient with Hodgkin lymphoma: Challenges, interdisciplinary findings, and reliability check of the image-based algorithm for diagnosis and response assessment. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2022; 69:e29560. [PMID: 34971071 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.29560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Krystyna Rozwod
- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.,Medical Faculty, Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Medicine, Hospital Fulda, Fulda, Germany
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Hospital Fulda, Fulda, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Parghane RV, Basu S. PET-CTBased Quantitative Parameters for Assessment of Treatment Response and Disease Activity in Cancer and Noncancerous Disorders. PET Clin 2022; 17:465-478. [PMID: 35717102 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2022.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The various semiquantitative and quantitative PET-CT parameters provide measurement of disease activity and assessment of treatment response in the PET-CT studies. These include standardized uptake value (SUV), metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG), and total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV). Thresholding and adaptive thresholding methods are commonly used algorithms for the evaluation of global disease activity. Readily available commercial software frequently in-built with the current generation PET-CT scanners for providing easy, less time consuming, highly reproducible, and more accurate measurement of global disease activity on PET-CT imaging in evaluation of malignant as well as benign disorders.
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- Rahul V Parghane
- Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Mumbai, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
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- Radiation Medicine Centre (BARC), Tata Memorial Hospital Annexe, Parel, Mumbai, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India.
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Sardjoe Mishre AS, Martinez-Tellez B, Acosta FM, Sanchez-Delgado G, Straat ME, Webb AG, Kan HE, Rensen PC, Ruiz JR. Association of shivering threshold time with body composition and brown adipose tissue in young adults. J Therm Biol 2022; 108:103277. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2022.103277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Yang J, Yan J, Li J, Yang Z, Zhang H, Zhao Q, Xu W. El papel de los parámetros metabólicos de la 18F-FDG PET/TC en el linfoma linfoblástico pediátrico. Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.remn.2020.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Clinical Perspectives for 18F-FDG PET Imaging in Pediatric Oncology: Μetabolic Tumor Volume and Radiomics. Metabolites 2022; 12:metabo12030217. [PMID: 35323660 PMCID: PMC8956064 DOI: 10.3390/metabo12030217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Pediatric cancer, although rare, requires the most optimized treatment approach to obtain high survival rates and minimize serious long-term side effects in early adulthood. 18F-FDG PET/CT is most helpful and widely used in staging, recurrence detection, and response assessment in pediatric oncology. The well-known 18F-FDG PET metabolic indices of metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and tumor lesion glycolysis (TLG) have already revealed an independent significant prognostic value for survival in oncologic patients, although the corresponding cut-off values remain study-dependent and not validated for use in clinical practice. Advanced tumor “radiomic” analysis sheds new light into these indices. Numerous patterns of texture 18F-FDG uptake features can be extracted from segmented PET tumor images due to new powerful computational systems supporting complex “deep learning” algorithms. This high number of “quantitative” tumor imaging data, although not decrypted in their majority and once standardized for the different imaging systems and segmentation methods, could be used for the development of new “clinical” models for specific cancer types and, more interestingly, for specific age groups. In addition, data from novel techniques of tumor genome analysis could reveal new genes as biomarkers for prognosis and/or targeted therapies in childhood malignancies. Therefore, this ever-growing information of “radiogenomics”, in which the underlying tumor “genetic profile” could be expressed in the tumor-imaging signature of “radiomics”, possibly represents the next model for precision medicine in pediatric cancer management. This paper reviews 18F-FDG PET image segmentation methods as applied to pediatric sarcomas and lymphomas and summarizes reported findings on the values of metabolic and radiomic features in the assessment of these pediatric tumors.
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Rogasch JMM, Hofheinz F, van Heek L, Voltin CA, Boellaard R, Kobe C. Influences on PET Quantification and Interpretation. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:451. [PMID: 35204542 PMCID: PMC8871060 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12020451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Various factors have been identified that influence quantitative accuracy and image interpretation in positron emission tomography (PET). Through the continuous introduction of new PET technology-both imaging hardware and reconstruction software-into clinical care, we now find ourselves in a transition period in which traditional and new technologies coexist. The effects on the clinical value of PET imaging and its interpretation in routine clinical practice require careful reevaluation. In this review, we provide a comprehensive summary of important factors influencing quantification and interpretation with a focus on recent developments in PET technology. Finally, we discuss the relationship between quantitative accuracy and subjective image interpretation.
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- Julian M. M. Rogasch
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany;
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf, 01328 Dresden, Germany;
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany; (L.v.H.); (C.-A.V.)
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany; (L.v.H.); (C.-A.V.)
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Center Amsterdam (CCA), Amsterdam University Medical Center, Free University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany; (L.v.H.); (C.-A.V.)
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PET imaging of lymphomas. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-822960-6.00047-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Jain S, Bakhshi S, Seth R, Verma N, Singh M, Mahajan A, Radhakrishnan V, Mandal P, Arora R, Dinand V, Kalra M, Sharma A, Taluja A, Thulkar S, Biswas A, Chandra J. Risk based and response adapted radiation therapy for children and adolescents with newly diagnosed advanced stage Hodgkin lymphoma treated with ABVD chemotherapy: a report from the Indian pediatric oncology group study InPOG-HL-15-01. Leuk Lymphoma 2021; 63:1111-1118. [PMID: 34881686 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2021.2012659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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This multi-centric prospective study (InPOG-HL-15-01) assessed epidemiological, clinical and outcome data of advanced stage Hodgkin Lymphoma (IIB, III and IV) in children and adolescents (N = 262). Chemotherapy regimen was ABVD (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) and radiotherapy (RT) was restricted to patients with bulky disease at diagnosis or with suboptimal response at early response assessment (ERA). ERA revealed complete response in 175 (68.1%), partial response in 77 (29.9%), stable disease in 2 (0.8%), and progressive disease in 3 (1.2%) patients. RT was administered to 111 (97 bulky disease, 14 suboptimal response) patients. Five-year event free (EFS) and overall survival for the whole cohort was 81.1% and 90.8% respectively. On multivariate analysis, the only statistically significant predictor of EFS was use of RT (89% versus 74.2%; p-value <0.001). This study reinforces the benefit of consolidative RT in bulky disease and in those with suboptimal response at ERA on an ABVD backbone.
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- Sandeep Jain
- Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India
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- Pediatric Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Pediatric Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Pediatrics, King George Medical University, Lucknow, India
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- Medical and Pediatric Oncology, Mahavir Cancer Sansthan and Research Centre, Patna, India
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- Pediatric Oncology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Institutes of Orthopaedics, New Delhi, India
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- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Palliative and Supportive Unit, Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Parel, India
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- Pediatric Hematology Oncology and BMT, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Research, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India
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- Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Radiations Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Pediatrics, Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi, India
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AlShehry NF, Shanker R, Zaidi SZA, AlGhmlas F, Motabi IH, Iqbal S, Butt AA, AlShehri H, Tailor IK, Altaf SY, AlGhamdi M, Marie M, AlFayez M, Al Zahrani K, Dwaimah M, Al-Halouli T, Al-Shakweer W, AlShehery MZ, Zaidi ARZ, Gill AM, Albtoosh BM, Ahmed M. Role of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Imaging in the Prediction of Prognosis in Patients With Indolent Lymphoma: Prospective Study. JMIR Form Res 2021; 5:e24936. [PMID: 34508363 PMCID: PMC8663482 DOI: 10.2196/24936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The role of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in indolent lymphoma has been minimally studied. OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess the value of FDG-PET/CT in predicting the prognosis of indolent lymphoma. METHODS We prospectively recruited 42 patients with indolent lymphoma. A total of 2 patients were excluded, and 40 underwent baseline PET/CT and follow-up at various time points. A total of 9 patients were observed only, 7 received 4 doses of rituximab alone, and 24 received chemoimmunotherapy. Metabolic response on follow-up PET/CT was assessed using the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and Deauville criteria (DC). We aimed to obtain the best SUVmax and DC to predict optimal survival rates, risk stratification, and optimize therapeutic strategies. The mean follow-up from the initial diagnosis was 33.83 months. RESULTS SUVmax <4.35 at interim PET/CT provided the best discrimination, with a progression-free survival (PFS) of 100% and a median survival time of 106.67 months compared with SUVmax ≥4.35 (P=.04), which had a PFS of 43.8% and a median survival time of 50.17 months. This cutoff was also valuable in predicting overall survival at baseline, that is, 100% overall survival with baseline SUVmax <4.35, versus 58.4% for SUVmax ≥4.35 (P=.13). The overall survival of patients with a baseline DC score <3.0 was 100%, with a median overall survival of 106.67 months. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated the utility of PET/CT in indolent lymphomas. SUVmax (<4.35 vs ≥4.35) on interim PET/CT performed best in predicting PFS.
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- Nawal Faiez AlShehry
- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Adult Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Kurch L, Dührsen U, Hüttmann A, Georgi TW, Sabri O, Kluge R, Hasenclever D. Quantitative evaluation of interim positron emission tomography in peripheral T-cell lymphoma. EJNMMI Res 2021; 11:90. [PMID: 34523055 PMCID: PMC8440745 DOI: 10.1186/s13550-021-00827-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Interim [18F]fluoro-deoxyglucose-positron emission tomography predicts outcome in peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL). We compared two quantitative evaluation methods. METHODS Interim scans from 43 patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-negative PTCL from the 'Positron Emission Tomography-Guided Therapy of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas' trial were re-analyzed by qPET (relating residual lymphoma-related uptake to liver uptake) and ∆SUVmax (relating interim scan to baseline scan). The endpoint was progression-free survival. RESULTS qPET and ∆SUVmax were closely correlated (Pearson's r = 0.627). Up to the 60th percentile of values ranked by increasing residual activity, the positive predictive value for progression or death increased from 60 to 95%, with stable negative predictive values (NPV) of 60%. Beyond the 60th percentile, the NPV decreased to 40%. qPET ≥ 2 and ∆SUVmax < 50% identified high-risk populations comprising 41.9% and 39.5% of patients, with 3-year progression-free survival rates of 5.6% (95% confidence interval, 0.8-37.3) and 0%, respectively, as compared to 63.7% (47.4-85.8) and 61.3% (45.1-83.3) in low-risk patients. CONCLUSIONS qPET and ∆SUVmax identify large fractions of PTCL patients destined to experience treatment failure. qPET may be preferred because it requires a single PET scan, halving the diagnostic effort.
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- Lars Kurch
- Klinik Und Poliklinik Für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Klinik Für Hämatologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik Für Hämatologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik Und Poliklinik Für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Klinik Und Poliklinik Für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Klinik Und Poliklinik Für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut Für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik Und Epidemiologie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Hematologic malignancies are a broad category of cancers arising from the lymphoid and myeloid cell lines. The 2016 World Health Organization classification system incorporated molecular markers as part of the diagnostic criteria and includes more than 100 subtypes. This article focuses on the subtypes for which imaging with positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has become an integral component of the patient's evaluation, that is, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Leukemia and histiocytic and dendritic cell neoplasms are also discussed as these indications for PET/CT are less common, but increasingly seen in clinic.
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Kurch L, Hüttmann A, Georgi TW, Rekowski J, Sabri O, Schmitz C, Kluge R, Dührsen U, Hasenclever D. Interim PET in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. J Nucl Med 2021; 62:1068-1074. [PMID: 33246974 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.255034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, early assessment of treatment response by 18F-FDG PET may trigger treatment modification. Reliable identification of good and poor responders is important. We compared 3 competing methods of interim PET evaluation. Methods: Images from 449 patients participating in the "PET-Guided Therapy of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas" trial were reanalyzed by applying the visual Deauville score and the SUV-based qPET (q = quantitative) and ΔSUVmax scales to interim PET scans performed after 2 cycles of chemotherapy. qPET relates residual lymphoma 18F-FDG uptake to physiologic liver uptake, converting the ordinal Deauville scale into a continuous scale and permitting a direct comparison with the continuous ΔSUVmax scale, which is based on SUVmax changes between baseline and interim scans. Positive and negative predictive values were calculated for progression-free survival. Results: When established thresholds were used to distinguish between good and poor responders (visual Deauville score 1-3 vs. 4-5; ΔSUVmax > 66% vs. ≤ 66%), the positive predictive value was significantly lower with Deauville than ΔSUVmax (38.4% vs. 56.6%; P = 0.03). qPET and ΔSUVmax were strongly correlated on the log scale (Pearson r = 0.75). When plotted along corresponding percentiles, the positive predictive value curves for qPET and ΔSUVmax were superimposable, with low values up to the 85th percentile and a steep rise thereafter. The recommended threshold of 66% SUVmax reduction for the identification of poor responders was equivalent to qPET = 2.26, corresponding to score 5 on the visual Deauville scale. The negative predictive value curves were also superimposable but remained flat between 80% and 70%. Conclusion: Continuous scales are better suited for interim PET-based outcome prediction than the ordinal Deauville scale. qPET and ΔSUVmax essentially carry the same information. The proportion of poor-risk patients identified is less than 15%.
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- Lars Kurch
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany;
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- Klinik für Hämatologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany; and
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Klinik für Hämatologie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik und Epidemiologie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Juweid ME, Mueller M, Alhouri A, A-Risheq MZ, Mottaghy FM. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the management of Hodgkin and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma: An update. Cancer 2021; 127:3727-3741. [PMID: 34286864 DOI: 10.1002/cncr.33772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is now an integral part of lymphoma staging and management. Because of its greater accuracy compared with CT alone, PET/CT is currently routinely performed for staging and for response assessment at the end of treatment in the vast majority of FDG-avid lymphomas and is the cornerstone of response classification for these lymphomas according to the Lugano classification. Interim PET/CT, typically performed after 2 to 4 of 6 to 8 chemotherapy/chemoimmunotherapy cycles with or without radiation, is commonly performed for prognostication and potential treatment escalation or de-escalation early in the course of therapy, a concept known as response-adapted or risk-adapted treatment. Quantitative PET is an area of growing interest. Metrics, such as the standardized uptake value, changes (Δ) in the standardized uptake value, metabolic tumor volume, and total lesion glycolysis, are being investigated as more reproducible and potentially more accurate predictors of response and prognosis. Despite the progress made in standardizing the use of PET/CT in lymphoma, challenges remain, particularly with respect to its limited positive predictive value, emphasizing the need for more specific molecular probes. This review highlights the most relevant applications of PET/CT in Hodgkin and B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, its strengths and limitations, as well as recent efforts at implementing PET/CT-based metrics as promising tools for precision medicine.
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- Malik E Juweid
- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Rheinish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Rheinish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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Lo AC, Dieckmann K, Pelz T, Gallop-Evans E, Engenhart-Cabillic R, Vordermark D, Kelly KM, Schwartz CL, Constine LS, Roberts K, Hodgson D. Pediatric classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2021; 68 Suppl 2:e28562. [PMID: 33818890 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.28562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Over the past century, classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) has been transformed from a uniformly fatal disease to one of the most curable cancers. Given the high cure rate, a major focus of classical HL management is reducing the use of radiation therapy (RT) and chemotherapy agents such as procarbazine and doxorubicin to minimize long-term toxicities. In both North America and Europe, an important philosophy in the management of classical HL is to guide the intensity of treatment according to the risk category of the disease. The main factors used for risk classification are tumor stage, bulk of disease, and the presence of B symptoms. Response to chemotherapy is an important factor guiding the utilization of RT in ongoing Children's Oncology Group (COG) and European Network Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma (EuroNet-PHL) trials. Both trial groups have transitioned to reduced RT volumes that target the highest risk sites using highly conformal techniques, along with standard or intensified chemotherapy regimens to improve outcomes in higher risk patients. However, given the potential acute toxicities of intensified chemotherapy, immunoregulatory drugs are being investigated in upcoming trials. The purpose of this review is to summarize current approaches to treating pediatric classical HL according to the COG and EuroNet-PHL.
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- Andrea C Lo
- Radiation Oncology, British Columbia Cancer and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiotherapy Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, and University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York
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- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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- Radiation Oncology and Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
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- Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Center and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Vali R, Alessio A, Balza R, Borgwardt L, Bar-Sever Z, Czachowski M, Jehanno N, Kurch L, Pandit-Taskar N, Parisi M, Piccardo A, Seghers V, Shulkin BL, Zucchetta P, Lim R. SNMMI Procedure Standard/EANM Practice Guideline on Pediatric 18F-FDG PET/CT for Oncology 1.0. J Nucl Med 2021; 62:99-110. [PMID: 33334912 PMCID: PMC8679588 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.254110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote the science, technology, and practical application of nuclear medicine. The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) is a professional nonprofit medical association founded in 1985 to facilitate communication worldwide among individuals pursuing clinical and academic excellence in nuclear medicine. SNMMI and EANM members are physicians, technologists, and scientists specializing in the research and practice of nuclear medicine. The SNMMI and EANM will periodically put forth new standards/guidelines for nuclear medicine practice to help advance the science of nuclear medicine and improve service to patients. Existing standards/guidelines will be reviewed for revision or renewal, as appropriate, on their fifth anniversary or sooner, if indicated. Each standard/guideline, representing a policy statement by the SNMMI/EANM, has undergone a thorough consensus process, entailing extensive review. The SNMMI and EANM recognize that the safe and effective use of diagnostic nuclear medicine imaging requires particular training and skills, as described in each document. These standards/guidelines are educational tools designed to assist practitioners in providing appropriate and effective nuclear medicine care for patients. These guidelines are consensus documents, and are not inflexible rules or requirements of practice. They are not intended, nor should they be used, to establish a legal standard of care. For these reasons and those set forth below, the SNMMI and the EANM cautions against the use of these standards/guidelines in litigation in which the clinical decisions of a practitioner are called into question. The ultimate judgment regarding the propriety of any specific procedure or course of action must be made by medical professionals taking into account the unique circumstances of each case. Thus, there is no implication that action differing from what is laid out in the standards/guidelines, standing alone, is below standard of care. To the contrary, a conscientious practitioner may responsibly adopt a course of action different from that set forth in the standards/guidelines when, in the reasonable judgment of the practitioner, such course of action is indicated by the condition of the patient, limitations of available resources, or advances in knowledge or technology subsequent to publication of the standards/guidelines. The practice of medicine involves not only the science, but also the art of dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, and treatment of disease. The variety and complexity of human conditions make it impossible for general guidelines to consistently allow for an accurate diagnosis to be reached or a particular treatment response to be predicted. Therefore, it should be recognized that adherence to these standards/guidelines will not ensure a successful outcome. All that should be expected is that the practitioner follows a reasonable course of action, based on their level of training, the current knowledge, the available resources, and the needs/context of the particular patient being treated. PET and computerized tomography (CT) have been widely used in oncology. 18F-FDG is the most common radiotracer used for PET imaging. The purpose of this document is to provide imaging specialists and clinicians guidelines for recommending, performing, and interpreting 18F-FDG PET/CT in pediatric patients in oncology. There is not a high level of evidence for all recommendations suggested in this paper. These recommendations represent the expert opinions of experienced leaders in this field. Further studies are needed to have evidence-based recommendations for the application of 18F-FDG PET/CT in pediatric oncology. These recommendations should be viewed in the context of good practice of nuclear medicine and are not intended to be a substitute for national and international legal or regulatory provisions.
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- Reza Vali
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department for Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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- University Hospital Leipzig, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Washington School of Medicine and Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington
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- Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; and
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Prognostic Value of 2-Deoxy-2-[ 18F]fluoro-D-glucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Lymphoma Using Deauville Scores. CONTRAST MEDIA & MOLECULAR IMAGING 2021; 2021:5510825. [PMID: 33958977 PMCID: PMC8075696 DOI: 10.1155/2021/5510825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Purpose In the present study, we mainly aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose ([18F]F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in lymphoma. Procedures. A total of 76 lymphoma patients who benefited from [18F]F-FDG PET-CT (within 3 months and 3–6 months) after ASCT in our institution between April 2010 and December 2019 were enrolled in this retrospective study. These abovementioned patients were divided into two groups based on the Deauville criteria. The Kaplan–Meier method was used in survival analysis, and the log-rank method was adopted in comparison. Prognostic factor analysis was performed by the Cox regression model. Results Positive post-ASCT [18F]F-FDG PET-CT was associated with lower progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) (p = 0.001 and p = 0.022, respectively). Univariate analysis showed the post-ASCT PET-CT result was the only independent factor associated with PFS (p = 0.002). Both the number of previous treatments and post-ASCT PET-CT result had a different impact on OS (p = 0.040 and p = 0.028, respectively). Multivariate analysis showed the post-ASCT PET-CT result was the only independent factor associated with OS (p = 0.028). The results showed no significant change from the abovementioned results when DS < 3 was defined as the negative result. For patients who had a PET-CT scan within 3–6 months after ASCT, the negative PET-CT group had a better prognosis including PFS and OS (p = 0.009 and p = 0.025, respectively). However, among the patients receiving PET-CT within 3 months, the result was not statistically significant (p = 0.064 and p = 0.445, respectively). Conclusion Collectively, we found that the post-ASCT [18F]F-FDG PET-CT was a strong indicator for PFS and OS, and a time window of 3–6 months was appropriate for post-ASCT [18F]F-FDG PET-CT. Trial registration number: ChiCTR2100042745.
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Lopci E, Burnelli R, Elia C, Piccardo A, Castello A, Borsatti E, Zucchetta P, Cistaro A, Mascarin M. Additional value of volumetric and texture analysis on FDG PET assessment in paediatric Hodgkin lymphoma: an Italian multicentric study protocol. BMJ Open 2021; 11:e041252. [PMID: 33782017 PMCID: PMC8009231 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Assessment of response to therapy in paediatric patients with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT has become a powerful tool for the discrimination of responders from non-responders. The addition of volumetric and texture analyses can be regarded as a valuable help for disease prognostication and biological characterisation. Based on these premises, the Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group of the Associazione Italiana Ematologia Oncologia Pediatrica (AIEOP) has designed a prospective evaluation of volumetric and texture analysis in the Italian cohort of patients enrolled in the EuroNet-PHL-C2. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The primary objective is to compare volumetric assessment in patiens with HL at baseline and during the course of therapy with standard visual and semiquantitative analyses. The secondary objective is to identify the impact of volumetric and texture analysis on bulky masses. The tertiary objective is to determine the additional value of multiparametric assessment in patients having a partial response on morphological imaging.The overall cohort of the study is expected to be round 400-500 patients, with approximately half presenting with bulky masses. All PET scans of the Italian cohort will be analysed for volumetric assessment, comprising metabolic tumour volume and total lesion glycolysis at baseline and during the course of therapy. A dedicated software will delineate semiautomatically contours using different threshold methods, and the impact of each segmentation techniques will be evaluated. Bulky will be defined on contiguous lymph node masses ≥200 mL on CT/MRI. All bulky masses will be outlined and analysed by the same software to provide textural features. Morphological assessment will be based on RECIL 2017 for response definition. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION The current study has been ethically approved (AIFA/SC/P/27087 approved 09/03/2018; EudraCT 2012-004053-88, EM-04). The results of the different analyses performed during and after study completion the will be actively disseminated through peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations, social media, print media and internet.
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- Egesta Lopci
- Nuclear Medicine Department, IRCCS - Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy
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- Pediatric Onco-hematologic Unit, University Hospital Arcispedale Sant'Anna of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- AYA Oncology and Pediatric Radiotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Ente Ospedaliero Ospedali Galliera, Genova, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, IRCCS - Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Padua University Hospital, Padova, Italy
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Ente Ospedaliero Ospedali Galliera, Genova, Italy
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- AYA Oncology and Pediatric Radiotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy
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Rodríguez Taroco MG, Cuña EG, Pages C, Schelotto M, González-Sprinberg GA, Castillo LA, Alonso O. Prognostic value of imaging markers from 18FDG-PET/CT in paediatric patients with Hodgkin lymphoma. Nucl Med Commun 2021; 42:306-314. [PMID: 33306628 DOI: 10.1097/mnm.0000000000001337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Identification of imaging prognostic parameters for early therapy personalisation to reduce treatment-related morbidity in paediatric Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). Our aim was to evaluate quantitative markers from baseline 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose PET/CT as prognostic factors for treatment outcomes. Another goal was assessing the prognostic value of Deauville score at interim PET/CT. METHODS Twenty-one patients were prospectively enrolled. Median age was 12 years (range 6-17); 13 were female. Patients underwent PET/CT for disease staging (bPET), at the end of two cycles of chemotherapy (iPET) and after chemotherapy. A total of 173 lesions were segmented from bPET. We calculated 51 texture features for each lesion. Total metabolic tumour volume and total lesion glycolysis from bPET were calculated for response prediction at iPET. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used for optimal cut-off values to separate responders at iPET according to the Deauville score. RESULTS We identified four texture features as possible independent predictors of treatment outcomes at iPET. The areas under the ROC for univariate analysis were 0.89 (95% CI, 0.75-1), 0.82 (95% CI, 0.64-1), 0.79 (95% CI, 0.59-0.99) and 0.89 (95% CI, 0.75-1). The survival curves for patients assigned Deauville scores 1, 2, 3 and X were different from those assigned a score 4, with 4-year progression free-survival (PFS) rates of 85 versus 29%, respectively (P = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS We found four textural features as candidates for predicting early response to chemotherapy in paediatric patients with HL. The Deauville score at iPET was useful for differentiating PFS rates.
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- Uruguayan Centre of Molecular Imaging (CUDIM)
- Physics Institute, Sciences Faculty, University of the Republic
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- Paediatric Haemato Oncology Service, Pereira Rossell Hospital
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- Paediatric Haemato Oncology Service, Pereira Rossell Hospital
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- Uruguayan Centre of Molecular Imaging (CUDIM)
- Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Centre, Clinical Hospital, Medicine Faculty, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Radiologists and Clinical Trials: Part 1 The Truth About Reader Disagreements. Ther Innov Regul Sci 2021; 55:1111-1121. [PMID: 34228319 PMCID: PMC8259547 DOI: 10.1007/s43441-021-00316-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The debate over human visual perception and how medical images should be interpreted have persisted since X-rays were the only imaging technique available. Concerns over rates of disagreement between expert image readers are associated with much of the clinical research and at times driven by the belief that any image endpoint variability is problematic. The deeper understanding of the reasons, value, and risk of disagreement are somewhat siloed, leading, at times, to costly and risky approaches, especially in clinical trials. Although artificial intelligence promises some relief from mistakes, its routine application for assessing tumors within cancer trials is still an aspiration. Our consortium of international experts in medical imaging for drug development research, the Pharma Imaging Network for Therapeutics and Diagnostics (PINTAD), tapped the collective knowledge of its members to ground expectations, summarize common reasons for reader discordance, identify what factors can be controlled and which actions are likely to be effective in reducing discordance. Reinforced by an exhaustive literature review, our work defines the forces that shape reader variability. This review article aims to produce a singular authoritative resource outlining reader performance's practical realities within cancer trials, whether they occur within a clinical or an independent central review.
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The role of 18F-FDG PET/CT metabolic parameters in pediatric lymphoblastic lymphoma. Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol 2021; 41:91-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.remnie.2020.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Annunziata S, Pelliccioni A, Hohaus S, Maiolo E, Cuccaro A, Giordano A. The prognostic role of end-of-treatment FDG-PET/CT in diffuse large B cell lymphoma: a pilot study application of neural networks to predict time-to-event. Ann Nucl Med 2021; 35:102-110. [PMID: 33094420 DOI: 10.1007/s12149-020-01542-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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PURPOSE To evaluate the prognostic role of end-of-treatment (EoT) FDG-PET/CT parameters in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), and then to explore a pilot application of Neural Networks (NN) in predicting time-to-relapse. METHODS For conventional survival analysis, parameters as Deauville score (DS) and quantitative extension of DS (qPET) were correlated to adverse events as relapse or progression in the follow-up. To build NN and conventional multi-regression models (MM) for time-to-event prediction, patients with residual FDG uptake (DS ≥ 2) and an adverse event were divided into a training and a test group. Models developed on the training group were evaluated in the test group. Pearson correlation coefficient (R) and mean relative error between observed and forecasted time-to-event were calculated. RESULTS FDG-PET/CT data of 308 patients with DLBCL were analyzed. DS and qPET were prognostic factors in conventional univariate analysis. Positive and negative predictive values, respectively, were 55% and 83% for DS 4-5, 89% and 82% for positive qPET. Focusing on 37 relapsed patients with a residual FDG uptake, R between observed and forecasted time-to-event was of 0.63 in the NN model and 0.49 in the MM. Mean relative error in predicting time-to-event was of 58% for NN and 67% for MM. CONCLUSIONS EoT FDG-PET/CT visual score (DS) is a strong outcome predictor in DLBCL in a large monocentric cohort. The semi-quantitative parameter qPET may increase this prognostic performance. A pilot NN model applied on residual FDG uptake parameters seems to predict time-to-event in the follow-up.
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- Salvatore Annunziata
- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Roma, Italia.
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- Institute of Hematology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia
- Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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- Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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- Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Roma, Italia
- Dipartimento Diagnostica Per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italia
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Texte E, Lequesne J, Tilly H, Jardin F, Vera P, Stamatoullas A, Becker S. SUV max-based assessment of PET response shows a superior specificity to Deauville criteria for predicting recurrence in Hodgkin's lymphoma. Leuk Lymphoma 2020; 62:1088-1097. [PMID: 33289431 DOI: 10.1080/10428194.2020.1855341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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One of the limitations of 18FDG PET/CT for therapeutic evaluation in Hodgkin's Lymphoma is the relatively high rate of false positive uptake. SUVmax reduction (ΔSUVmax) and tumor/liver ratio (TLr) are promising tools for response assessment in lymphoma. We determined the optimal cutoff values for ΔSUVmax and TLr and compared them to Deauville score (DS) after two and four cycles chemotherapy (PET2 and PET4 respectively) and at the end of treatment PET (PETeot) on a cohort of 362 patients. TLr showed better diagnostic performances than DS for predicting 5-year progression-free survival (PFS), especially on early PET/CT assessments. Positive predictive values at PET2 for TLr, ΔSUVmax and DS were 51%, 34% and 31% respectively. On the multivariable analysis, significant predictive factors of PFS were TLr (at PET2, PET4 and PETeot) and ΔSUVmax (at PET4 and PETeot). DS was not significantly associated with PFS at any PET timing.
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- Edgar Texte
- Nuclear Medicine Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,QuantiF-LITIS (EA 4108-FR CNRS 3638), Faculty of Medicine, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
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- Department of Biostatistics, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France
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- Hematology Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,INSERM U1245, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France
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- Hematology Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,INSERM U1245, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,QuantiF-LITIS (EA 4108-FR CNRS 3638), Faculty of Medicine, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
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- Hematology Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,INSERM U1245, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France
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- Nuclear Medicine Department, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France.,QuantiF-LITIS (EA 4108-FR CNRS 3638), Faculty of Medicine, University of Rouen, Rouen, France
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Cho SY, Huff DT, Jeraj R, Albertini MR. FDG PET/CT for Assessment of Immune Therapy: Opportunities and Understanding Pitfalls. Semin Nucl Med 2020; 50:518-531. [PMID: 33059821 PMCID: PMC8201415 DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2020.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Immune checkpoint blockade has demonstrated the ability to modulate the immune system to produce durable responses in a wide range of cancers and has significantly impacted the standard of care. However, many cancer patients still do not respond to immune checkpoint blockade or have a limited duration of antitumor responses. Moreover, immune-related adverse events caused by immune checkpoint blockade can be severe and debilitating for some patients, limiting continuation of therapy and resulting in severe autoimmune conditions. Standard-of-care conventional anatomic imaging modalities and tumor response criteria have limitations to adequately assess tumor responses, especially early in the course of therapy, for risk-adapted clinical management to inform care of patients treated with immunotherapy. Molecular imaging with position emission tomography (PET) provides a noninvasive functional biomarker of tumor response, and of immune activation, for patients on immune-based therapies to help address these needs. 18F-FDG (FDG) PET/CT is readily available clinically and a number of studies have evaluated the use of this agent for assessment of prognosis, treatment response and immune activation for patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade. In this review paper, we discuss the current oncologic applications and imaging needs of cancer immunotherapy, recent studies applying FDG PET/CT for tumor response assessment, and evaluation of immune-related adverse events for improving clinical management. We largely focus on metastatic melanoma; however, we generalize where applicable to immunotherapy in other tumor types. We also briefly discuss PET imaging and quantitation as well as emerging non-FDG PET imaging radiotracers for cancer immunotherapy imaging.
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- Steve Y Cho
- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
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- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI; Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI; Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; Medical Service, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
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Wang C, Zhao K, Hu S, Huang Y, Ma L, Li M, Song Y. The PET-Derived Tumor-to-Liver Standard Uptake Ratio (SUV TLR ) Is Superior to Tumor SUVmax in Predicting Tumor Response and Survival After Chemoradiotherapy in Patients With Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer. Front Oncol 2020; 10:1630. [PMID: 33014819 PMCID: PMC7494965 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background: The maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) derived from 18F-fluorodeoxy-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) have some well-known shortcomings in predicting treatment response and prognosis in oncology. The standardized SUVmax with an appropriate reference background may overcome this problem in some instances. This study explored the prognostic value of the tumor-to-liver SUVmax ratio (SUVTLR) and the tumor-to-blood pool SUVmax ratio (SUVTBR) in predicting the objective response (OR) and overall survival (OS) in patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer after concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 128 newly diagnosed esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients who were treated with CCRT. The SUVmax of primary tumor, SUVTLR, SUVTBR and clinicopathologic features data were analyzed. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to determine the predictors of tumor response. Survival analysis was performed using the Kaplan–Meier method and Cox proportional hazards model. Results: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis demonstrated that SUVTLR was superior to SUVmax and SUVTBR in predicting treatment response. Univariate and multivariate analyses revealed that advanced tumor stage (hazard ratio [HR] = 9.67; 95% CI: 1.15-81.28; P = 0.037) and high SUVTLR (HR = 21.92; 95% CI: 2.26-212.96; P = 0.008) were independent predictors of poor treatment response. Cox regression analysis showed that good clinical tumor response (p < 0.014, HR =0.501; 95% CI: 0.288–0.871) was a favorable independent predictive factor for OS, while an advanced tumor stage (p = 0.018, HR = 1.796; 95% CI: 1.107-2.915) and a high SUVTLR (p < 0.002, HR = 2.660; 95% CI: 1.425–4.967) were prognostic factors for poor OS. The median OS of patients in the low SUVTLR and high SUVTLR groups was 13.47 vs. 19.30 months, respectively. Conclusions: PET-derived SUVTLR is superior to tumor SUVmax and SUVTBR in predicting treatment response and overall survival in patients with ESCC undergoing CCRT. High SUVTLR was an independent predictor of poor treatment response and shorter overall survival.
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- Chunsheng Wang
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, China.,Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Qingdao University Medical College Affiliated Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Yantai, China
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Kluge R, Wittig T, Georgi TW, Kurch L, Sabri O, Wallace WH, Klekawka T, Fernández-Teijeiro A, Ceppi F, Karlén J, Pears J, Cepelová M, Fosså A, Beishuizen A, Hjalgrim LL, Körholz D, Mauz-Körholz C, Hasenclever D. Comparison of Interim PET Response to Second-Line Versus First-Line Treatment in Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma: Contribution to the Development of Response Criteria for Relapsed or Progressive Disease. J Nucl Med 2020; 62:338-341. [PMID: 32764122 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.247924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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In first-line treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), Deauville scores 1-3 define complete metabolic remission. Interim 18F-FDG PET is also used for relapse-treatment adaptation; however, PET response criteria are not validated for relapse treatment. Methods: We performed a pairwise comparative analysis of early response to first- and second-line treatments in 127 patients with classic HL who experienced relapse. The patients participated in the prospective, multicenter EuroNet-PHL-C1 study. Residual uptake was measured retrospectively using the qPET method, a validated semiautomatic quantitative extension of the Deauville score. Empiric cumulative distribution functions of the qPET values were used to systematically analyze the response to first- and second-line treatments. Results: Individual patients responded variably to first- and second-line treatments. However, the empiric cumulative distribution functions of the qPET values from all patients were nearly superimposable. Conclusion: The findings support that first- and second-line treatments in HL do not require different response criteria.
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- Regine Kluge
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Edinburgh and Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Children's Hospital of Krakow, and Institute of Pediatrics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
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- Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Unit, Division of Pediatrics, Woman-Mother-Child Department, University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Pediatric Cancer Unit, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Faculty Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Radiotherapy, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Childhood and Adolescence Medicine, Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Juliane Marie Center, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany; and
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany; and
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics, and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Rekowski J, Hüttmann A, Schmitz C, Müller SP, Kurch L, Kotzerke J, Franzius C, Weckesser M, Bengel FM, Freesmeyer M, Hertel A, Krohn T, Holzinger J, Brink I, Haberkorn U, Nyuyki F, van Assema DME, Geworski L, Hasenclever D, Jöckel KH, Dührsen U. Interim PET Evaluation in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Using Published Recommendations: Comparison of the Deauville 5-Point Scale and the ΔSUV max Method. J Nucl Med 2020; 62:37-42. [PMID: 32385164 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.120.244145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The value of interim 18F-FDG PET/CT (iPET)-guided treatment decisions in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) has been the subject of much debate. This investigation focuses on a comparison of the Deauville score and the change-in-SUVmax (ΔSUVmax) approach-2 methods to assess early metabolic response to standard chemotherapy in DLBCL. Methods: Of 609 DLBCL patients participating in the PET-Guided Therapy of Aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas trial, iPET scans of 596 patients originally evaluated using the ΔSUVmax method were available for post hoc assessment of the Deauville score. A commonly used definition of an unfavorable iPET result according to the Deauville score is an uptake greater than that of the liver, whereas an unfavorable iPET scan with regard to the ΔSUVmax approach is characterized as a relative reduction of the SUVmax between baseline and iPET staging of less than or equal to 66%. We investigated the 2 methods' correlation and concordance by Spearman rank correlation coefficient and the agreement in classification, respectively. We further used Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox regression to assess differences in survival between patient subgroups defined by the prespecified cutoffs. Time-dependent receiver-operating-characteristic curve analysis provided information on the methods' respective discrimination performance. Results: Deauville score and ΔSUVmax approach differed in their iPET-based prognosis. The ΔSUVmax approach outperformed the Deauville score in terms of discrimination performance-most likely because of a high number of false-positive decisions by the Deauville score. Cutoff-independent discrimination performance remained low for both methods, but cutoff-related analyses showed promising results. Both favored the ΔSUVmax approach, for example, for the segregation by iPET response, where the event-free survival hazard ratio was 3.14 (95% confidence interval, 2.22-4.46) for ΔSUVmax and 1.70 (95% confidence interval, 1.29-2.24) for the Deauville score. Conclusion: When considering treatment intensification, the currently used Deauville score cutoff of an uptake above that of the liver seems to be inappropriate and associated with potential harm for DLBCL patients. The ΔSUVmax criterion of a relative reduction in SUVmax of less than or equal to 66% should be considered as an alternative.
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- Jan Rekowski
- Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie, und Epidemiologie, Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum, Leipzig, Germany
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- Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Zentrum für moderne Diagnostik (Zemodi), Zentrum für Nuklearmedizin und PET/CT, Bremen, Germany
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- Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
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- Klinik für Diagnostische und Therapeutische Nuklearmedizin, Klinikum, Fulda, Germany
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- Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum, Aachen, Germany
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- Institut für Diagnostische Radiologie, Neuroradiologie, und Nuklearmedizin, Johannes Wesling Klinikum, Minden, Germany
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- Klinik für nuklearmedizinische Diagnostik und Therapie, Ernst von Bergmann Klinikum, Potsdam, Germany
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- Radiologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsklinikum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Brüderkrankenhaus St. Josef, Paderborn, Germany
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- Stabsstelle Strahlenschutz und Abteilung Medizinische Physik, Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany; and
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- Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Statistik, und Epidemiologie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie, und Epidemiologie, Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany
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- Klinik für Hämatologie, Universitätsklinikum, Essen, Germany
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Georgi TW, Kurch L, Hasenclever D, Warbey VS, Pike L, Radford J, Sabri O, Kluge R, Barrington SF. Quantitative assessment of interim PET in Hodgkin lymphoma: An evaluation of the qPET method in adult patients in the RAPID trial. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231027. [PMID: 32240248 PMCID: PMC7117720 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Aim qPET is a quantitative method used to assess FDG-PET response in lymphoma. qPET was developed using 898 scans from children with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) in the EuroNet-PHL-C1 (C1) trial. The aim of this study was to determine if qPET could be applied as an alternative response method in adults in the RAPID trial. Methods PET-CT scans performed after 3 cycles of ABVD in RAPID were re-evaluated by an independent reader, blinded to PET results and outcome in RAPID. All initially involved regions were assessed visually and by qPET. The distribution of qPET measurements was compared for RAPID and C1 patients. Previously published qPET thresholds corresponding to visual DS (vDS) of 1–5 in C1 were used to derive quantitative DS (qDS) for RAPID patients. Results PET-CT scans were available for 450 patients from RAPID. vDS were 1 (171 scans), 2 (153 scans), 3 (72 scans), 4 (31 scans) and 5 (23 scans) respectively. The distribution of qPET values was similar to C1 patients, with a unimodal ‘normal’ distribution and a long tail to the right, suggestive of favorable response in the majority and less favorable response in the minority with outlying values. qPET thresholds from C1 applied in RAPID patients gave 86% concordance for vDS and qDS. There was 97% concordance for complete metabolic response (CMR; DS 1–3) vs. no-CMR using the Lugano classification. Conclusion qPET which was developed in pediatric patients receiving more intensive OEPA chemotherapy, was a suitable quantitative method for assessing response in adult patients treated with ABVD in a response-adapted setting in the RAPID trial.
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- Thomas W. Georgi
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- King's College London and Guy's & St Thomas' PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London and Guy's & St Thomas' PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University of Manchester and Christie National Health Service Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- King's College London and Guy's & St Thomas' PET Centre, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
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Lewis J, McCarten K, Kurch L, Flerlage JE, Kaste SC, Kluge R, Stoevesandt D, Voss SD, Kelly KM, Mauz-Körholz C, Drachtman RA, Metzger ML. Definition of cortical bone involvement in the staging of newly diagnosed pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma: A report from the International Working Group on Staging Evaluation and Response Criteria Harmonization (SEARCH). Pediatr Blood Cancer 2020; 67:e28142. [PMID: 31867838 DOI: 10.1002/pbc.28142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 12/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND The International Working Group on Staging Evaluation and Response Criteria Harmonization (SEARCH) seeks to provide a universally acceptable definition of cortical bone involvement in the staging of newly diagnosed pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma. PROCEDURE A comprehensive literature search was performed using PubMed and Google Scholar with the search terms "Hodgkin lymphoma," "osseous lesions," "bony involvement," and "pediatric." Publications reviewed included case reports, retrospective analyses, and literature reviews. Each was evaluated for study design, number of participants, median age and age range at diagnosis, percentage of pediatric patients, criteria of interest definition, diagnostic tools, study objectives, and level of evidence. The final definition was based on the available data and consensus of the SEARCH working group. RESULTS Twenty-five papers specifically addressing cortical bone involvement in Hodgkin lymphoma met the inclusion criteria. Eighteen papers were case reports with literature reviews; the remainder were observational cohort studies. Of these, 14 included pediatric patients (aged 0-21 years). The criteria for cortical bone involvement were not clearly defined in any paper, often varied within a study, and were inconsistent between publications. CONCLUSIONS The SEARCH group for Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma (CAYAHL) proposes the following criteria as defining cortical bone involvement: any cortical bone biopsy-proven lesion; a positive bony window lesion on computer tomography (CT), with an FDG-PET positive correlate in a patient with biopsy-proven Hodgkin lymphoma, if there is no other typical skeletal pathology; auspicious skeletal lesions on FDG-PET or magnetic resonance imaging should be confirmed by CT or Tc-99m scan to distinguish cortical lesions from bone marrow involvement. Nodal masses that extend into bone with bony destruction are considered extranodal extension or "E" lesions and do not represent metastatic or stage IV disease.
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- Jocelyn Lewis
- Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer, Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Rhode Island Hospital/Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.,Department of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Roswell Park Cancer Institute, University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Center for Pediatrics, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer, Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Daw S, Hasenclever D, Mascarin M, Fernández-Teijeiro A, Balwierz W, Beishuizen A, Burnelli R, Cepelova M, Claviez A, Dieckmann K, Landman-Parker J, Kluge R, Körholz D, Mauz-Körholz C, Wallace WH, Leblanc T. Risk and Response Adapted Treatment Guidelines for Managing First Relapsed and Refractory Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma in Children and Young People. Recommendations from the EuroNet Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma Group. Hemasphere 2020; 4:e329. [PMID: 32072145 PMCID: PMC7000476 DOI: 10.1097/hs9.0000000000000329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The objective of this guideline is to aid clinicians in making individual salvage treatment plans for pediatric and adolescent patients with first relapse or refractory (R/R) classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). While salvage with standard dose chemotherapy followed by high dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant is often considered the standard of care in adult practice, pediatric practice adopts a more individualized risk stratified and response adapted approach to salvage treatment with greater use of non-transplant salvage. Here, we present on behalf of the EuroNet Pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma group, evidence and consensus-based guidelines for standardized diagnostic, prognostic and response procedures to allocate children and adolescents with R/R cHL to stratified salvage treatments.
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- Stephen Daw
- Children and Young People's Cancer Services, University College Hospital London, London, UK
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- Institute of Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- AYA and Pediatric Radiotherapy Unit, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano, Italy
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- Unit of Pediatric Onco-Hematology, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Institute of Pediatrics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Prinses Máxima Centrum voor Kinderoncologie, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Section of Pediatrics, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Hospital Motol, Czech Republic
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- University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie, Zentrum für Kinderheilkunde der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
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- Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie, Zentrum für Kinderheilkunde der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
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- University of Edinburgh and Department of Pediatrics, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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