Metabolic Burden Measured by 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Is a Prognostic Factor in Patients with Small Cell Lung Cancer / Journal of the Korean Cancer Association, 대한암학회지
We conducted a retrospective review of 114 patients with pathologically proven SCLC (26 cases of limited disease and 88 cases of extensive disease) who underwent pretreatment 18F-FDGPET/CT. The maximal SUV (SUVmax) was used quantitatively for determination of FDG PET activity. The SUVmax of the primary tumor (primary SUVmax), the sum of SUVmax values of malignant lesions (SUVsum), and the mean SUVmax of malignant lesions were calculated.