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Prognostic Significance of Pre-operative FDG-PET in Colorectal Cancer Patients with Hepatic Metastasis  

Lee, Hyo-Sang (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Won-Woo (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Kim, Duck-Woo (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Kang, Sung-Bum (Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Kyoung-Ho (Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Lee, Keun-Wook (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Kim, Jee-Hyun (Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
Kim, Sang-Eun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine)
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / v.43, no.5, 2009 , pp. 429-435 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the prognostic value of preoperative FDG-PET in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients with hepatic metastasis (HM). Materials and Methods: 24 CRC patients (M:F=14:10; age, $63{\pm}10$ yrs) with HM who had undergone preoperative FDG PET were included. Cure-intent surgery was performed in all the patients and HMs were controlled using resection (n=13), radio-frequency ablation (RFA) (n=7), and resection plus RFA (n=4). Potential prognostic markers tested were maxSUV of primary tumor, maxSUV of HM, maxSUV ratio of HM over primary tumor (M/P ratio), histologic grade, CEA level, venous/lymphatic/nerve invasion, T stage, N stage, no. of HM, no. of lymph node metastasis, and treatment modality of HM. Results: 14 CRC patients developed a recurrence with a median follow-up duration of 244 days, whereas 10 patients did not develop recurrence with a median follow-up duration of 504 days. M/P ratios but other potential prognostic markers were significantly higher in the recurrent patients ($0.72{\pm}0.14$) than recurrence-free patients ($0.54{\pm}0.23$) (p=0.038). M/P ratio only was found to predict recurrence by Cox multivariate analysis (hazard ratio 37.7, 95% confidence interval 2.01-706.1, p=0.016). The 11 patients with lower M/P ratio of <0.61 had significantly better disease-free survival rate than the 13 patients with higher M/P ratio (${\geq}0.61$) (p=0.026). Conclusion: maxSUV ratio of HM over primary tumor (M/P ratio) may be useful for prognosis prediction of CRC patients with HM. Higher FDG uptake of HM than that of primary tumor may indicate a more advanced status in stage IV CRC.
Keywords
Colorectal cancer; hepatic metastasis; prognosis; fluorodeoxyglucose; positron emission tomography;
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