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SUBMITTER: Pu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286257 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pu Yonglin Y Zhang James X JX Liu Haiyan H Appelbaum Daniel D Meng Jianfeng J Penney Bill C BC
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 20180607 12
<h4>Purpose</h4>We hypothesized that whole-body metabolic tumor volume (MTVwb) could be used to supplement non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) staging due to its independent prognostic value. The goal of this study was to develop and validate a novel MTVwb risk stratification system to supplement NSCLC staging.<h4>Methods</h4>We performed an IRB-approved retrospective review of 935 patients with NSCLC and FDG-avid tumor divided into modeling and validation cohorts based on the type of PET/CT scan ...[more]