Development and validation of a nomogram for incorporating 18F-FDG PET/CT spleen uptake for predicting prognosis in elderly esophageal cancer patients treated with radiotherapy
Daojia Liu, Duanyu Lin, Zhongmei Lin, Ying Peng, Siqian Cai, Qiwei Yang, Zhizhong Lin, Yuanmei Chen, Yongshi Shen, Yuanji Xu · 2024
Read Development and validation of a nomogram for incorporating 18F-FDG PET/CT spleen uptake for predicting prognosis in elderly esophageal cancer patients treated with radiotherapy by Daojia Liu, Duanyu Lin, Zhongmei Lin, Ying Peng, Siqian Cai, Qiwei Yang, Zhizhong Lin, Yuanmei Chen, Yongshi Shen, Yuanji Xu (2024) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11635226.txt.
Description
Elderly patients with throat cancer face hard choices around radiation, and doctors lack a tailored survival forecast for them. Daojia Liu and co-authors build one in a 2024 study, adding a spleen signal from metabolic scans to the usual staging.
The chart review covered 118 older patients treated with radiotherapy for esophageal squamous cancer. Two scan measures, the spleen-to-liver uptake ratio and the visible tumor length, predicted survival on their own. Combined with standard staging in a nomogram, a point-based chart, they sorted patients into three risk groups with clearly different outlooks. Accuracy checks supported the tool. A spleen signal, the authors suggest, may quietly reflect the immune state that shapes survival.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Daojia Liu, Duanyu Lin, Zhongmei Lin, Ying Peng, Siqian Cai, Qiwei Yang, Zhizhong Lin, Yuanmei Chen, Yongshi Shen, Yuanji Xu |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |