Relationship Among Glycolytic Phenotype, Grade, and Histological Subtype in Ovarian Carcinoma

Abstract

The glycolytic phenotype in epithelial ovarian cancer, expressed as SUVmax, is strong. However, tumor FDG uptake is unrelated to tumor grade and histologic subtype implying that F-18 FDG PET/CT cannot be used to predict tumor aggressiveness or histology.