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SUBMITTER: Finkle JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048959 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Finkle Joshua H JH Jo Stephanie Y SY Ferguson Mark K MK Liu Hai-Yan HY Zhang Chenpeng C Zhu Xuee X Yuan Cindy C Pu Yonglin Y
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 20170307 8
<h4>Objectives</h4>Stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is heterogeneous in tumor burden, and its treatment is variable. Whole-body metabolic tumor volume (MTV<sub>WB</sub>) has been shown to be an independent prognostic index for overall survival (OS). However, the potential of MTV<sub>WB</sub> to risk-stratify stage IIIA NSCLC has previously been unknown. If we can identify subgroups within the stage exhibiting significant OS differences using MTV<sub>WB</sub>, MTV<sub>WB</sub> may le ...[more]