Metabolic tumor burden quantified on [18F]FDG PET/CT improves TNM staging of lung cancer patients
Metabolic tumor burden quantified on [18F]FDG PET/CT improves TNM staging of lung cancer patients
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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English
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The purpose of our study was to test a new staging algorithm, combining clinical TNM staging (cTNM) with whole-body metabolic active tumor volume (MATV-WB), with the goal of improving prognostic ability and stratification power.
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Initial staging [
18
F]FDG PET/CT of 278 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, perf...
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Metabolic tumor burden quantified on [18F]FDG PET/CT improves TNM staging of lung cancer patients
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1962125761
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1962125761
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1619-7070
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1619-7089
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10.1007/s00259-017-3789-y
