FDG-PET Assessment of Rectal Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Is Not Associated With Long-Term Prognosis - Concepedia

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FDG-PET Assessment of Rectal Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Is Not Associated With Long-Term Prognosis

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2012

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Jeannine A. Ruby, Tobias Leibold, Timothy Akhurst, Jinru Shia, Leonard B. Saltz, Madhu Mazumdar, Elyn Riedel, Steven M. Larson, José G. Guillem

Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Abstract

Assessment of rectal cancer response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy by FDG-PET provides no prognostic information. Therefore, serial FDG-PET before and after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy should not be performed for this purpose.

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