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Guldbrandsen KF, Sopina L, Rasmussen TR, Fischer BM. Use of [ 18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography after Curative Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Diagnostics (Basel) 2024; 14:233. [PMID: 38275480 PMCID: PMC10814487 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics14020233] [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: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 01/07/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
Abstract
[¹⁸F]Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ([¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT) is a valuable imaging tool in the post-treatment management of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study aimed to investigate the trends in utilization and factors associated with the use of [¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT after curative-intent treatment. Data from 13,758 NSCLC patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2020 identified in the Danish Lung Cancer Registry, who underwent curative-intent treatment, were analyzed using multivariable regression. The results showed a significant increase in the use of [¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT scans, from 10.4 per 100 patients per year in 2007 to 39.6 in 2013, followed by a period of stability. Higher utilization rates were observed in patients who received radiotherapy (22% increase compared to surgical resection) and in patients with stage II-III disease (14% and 20% increase compared to stage I, respectively). Additionally, utilization was increased when other diagnostic procedures were performed, such as MRI, ultrasound, endoscopy, and biopsy. These findings highlight an increasing reliance on [¹⁸F]FDG PET/CT in post-treatment NSCLC, especially after radiotherapy and in patients with locally advanced disease, where treatment-induced radiographic changes and an increased risk of recurrence present a significant diagnostic challenge.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kasper Foged Guldbrandsen
- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Center for Health Economics (DaCHE), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), 5230 Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Jiang M, Guo X, Chen P, Zhang X, Gao Q, Zhang J, Zheng J. Prognostic significance of integrating total metabolic tumor volume and EGFR mutation status in patients with lung adenocarcinoma. PeerJ 2024; 12:e16807. [PMID: 38250731 PMCID: PMC10799611 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
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Background The objective of this study was to investigate the prognostic significance of total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV) derived from baseline 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), in conjunction with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation status, among patients with lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). Methods We performed a retrospective analysis on 141 patients with LUAD (74 males, 67 females, median age 67 (range 34-86)) who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT and had their EGFR mutation status determined. Optimal cutoff points for TMTV were determined using time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve analysis. The survival difference was compared using Cox regression analysis and Kaplan‒Meier curves. Results The EGFR mutant patients (n = 79, 56.0%) exhibited significantly higher 2-year progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) rates compared to those with EGFR wild-type (n = 62, 44.0%), with rates of 74.2% vs 69.2% (P = 0.029) and 86.1% vs 67.7% (P = 0.009), respectively. The optimal cutoff values of TMTV were 36.42 cm3 for PFS and 37.51 cm3 for OS. Patients with high TMTV exhibited significantly inferior 2-year PFS and OS, with rates of 22.4% and 38.1%, respectively, compared to those with low TMTV, who had rates of 85.8% and 95.0% (both P < 0.001). In both the EGFR mutant and wild-type groups, patients exhibiting high TMTV demonstrated significantly inferior 2-year PFS and OS compared to those with low TMTV. In multivariate analysis, EGFR mutation status (hazard ratio, HR, 0.41, 95% confidence interval, CI [0.18-0.94], P = 0.034) and TMTV (HR 8.08, 95% CI [2.34-28.0], P < 0.001) were independent prognostic factors of OS, whereas TMTV was also an independent prognosticator of PFS (HR 2.59, 95% CI [1.30-5.13], P = 0.007). Conclusion Our study demonstrates that the integration of TMTV on baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT with EGFR mutation status improves the accuracy of prognostic evaluation for patients with LUAD.
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- Maoqing Jiang
- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ningbo No. 2 Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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Brose A, Michalski K, Ruf J, Tosch M, Eschmann SM, Schreckenberger M, König J, Nestle U, Miederer M. PET/CT reading for relapse in non-small cell lung cancer after chemoradiotherapy in the PET-Plan trial cohort. Cancer Imaging 2023; 23:45. [PMID: 37198668 DOI: 10.1186/s40644-023-00567-6] [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: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Current studies indicate that fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography ([18F]FDG PET/CT) is the most accurate imaging modality for the detection of relapsed locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after curatively intended chemoradiotherapy. To this day, there is no objective and reproducible definition for the diagnosis of disease recurrence in PET/CT, the reading of which is relevantly influenced by post radiation inflammatory processes. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare visual and threshold-based semi-automated evaluation criteria for the assessment of suspected tumor recurrence in a well-defined study population investigated during the randomized clinical PET-Plan trial. METHODS This retrospective analysis comprises 114 PET/CT data sets of 82 patients from the PET-Plan multi-center study cohort who underwent [18F]FDG PET/CT imaging at different timepoints for relapse, as suspected by CT. Scans were first analyzed visually by four blinded readers using a binary scoring system for each possible localization and the associated reader certainty of the evaluation. Visual evaluations were conducted repeatedly without and with additional knowledge of the initial staging PET and radiotherapy delineation volumes. In a second step, uptake was measured quantitatively using maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), peak standardized uptake value corrected for lean body mass (SULpeak), and a liver threshold-based quantitative assessment model. Resulting sensitivity and specificity for relapse detection were compared to the findings in the visual assessment. The gold standard of recurrence was independently defined by prospective study routine including external reviewers using CT, PET, biopsies and clinical course of the disease. RESULTS Overall interobserver agreement (IOA) of the visual assessment was moderate with a high difference between secure (ĸ = 0.66) and insecure (ĸ = 0.24) evaluations. Additional knowledge of the initial staging PET and radiotherapy delineation volumes improved the sensitivity (0.85 vs 0.92) but did not show significant impact on the specificity (0.86 vs 0.89). PET parameters SUVmax and SULpeak showed lower accuracy compared to the visual assessment, whereas threshold-based reading showed similar sensitivity (0.86) and higher specificity (0.97). CONCLUSION Visual assessment especially if associated with high reader certainty shows very high interobserver agreement and high accuracy that can be further increased by baseline PET/CT information. The implementation of a patient individual liver threshold value definition, similar to the threshold definition in PERCIST, offers a more standardized method matching the accuracy of experienced readers albeit not providing further improvement of accuracy.
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- Alexander Brose
- Department of Translational Imaging in Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT/UCC) Dresden, Germany: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology Dresden (TUD), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany.
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Marienhospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Kliniken Maria Hilf, Mönchengladbach, Germany
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Translational Imaging in Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT/UCC) Dresden, Germany: German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology Dresden (TUD), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Dresden, Germany
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Additional Primary Tumors Detected Incidentally on FDG PET/CT at Staging in Patients with First Diagnosis of NSCLC: Frequency, Impact on Patient Management and Survival. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15051521. [PMID: 36900312 PMCID: PMC10001246 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15051521] [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: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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We aimed to assess the frequency of additional primary malignancies detected incidentally on [18F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) at staging in NSCLC patients. Moreover, their impact on patient management and survival was assessed. Consecutive NSCLC patients with available staging FDG-PET/CT between 2020 and 2021 were retrospectively enrolled. We reported whether further investigations of suspicious findings presumably not related to NSCLC were recommended and performed after FDG-PET/CT. Any additional imaging, surgery or multimodal management was considered as an impact on patient management. Patient survival was defined using overall survival OS and progression-free survival PFS. A total of 125 NSCLC patients were included, while 26 findings in 26 different patients were suspicious for an additional malignancy on FDG-PET/CT at staging. The most frequent anatomical site was the colon. A total of 54.2% of all additional suspicious lesions turned out to be malignant. Almost every malignant finding had an impact on patient management. No significant differences were found between NSCLC patients with suspicious findings versus no suspicious findings with regards to their survival. FDG-PET/CT performed for staging might be a valuable tool to identify additional primary tumors in NSCLC patients. Identification of additional primary tumors might have substantial implications for patient management. An early detection together with interdisciplinary patient management could prevent a worsening of survival compared to patients with NSCLC only.
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Marcus C, Tajmir SH, Rowe SP, Sheikhbahaei S, Solnes LB. 18F-FDG PET/CT for Response Assessment in Lung Cancer. Semin Nucl Med 2022; 52:662-672. [DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2022.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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