Pretreatment SUV associated with head and neck cancer treatment outcomes, may help decide treatment plans
Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
The maximal standardized uptake value (called SUVmax) measured from FDG PET readings taken from the primary tumor in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients before treatment is a strong predictor of disease-specific survival, overall survival and disease-free survival, while pretreatment SUVmax for lymphodenopathy is strongly associated with distant metastasis, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium.