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Non-small-cell lung cancer resectability: diagnostic value of PET/MR.

Fraioli, F; Screaton, NJ; Janes, SM; Win, T; Menezes, L; Kayani, I; Syed, R; ... Groves, AM; + view all (2014) Non-small-cell lung cancer resectability: diagnostic value of PET/MR. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging , 42 (1) pp. 49-55. 10.1007/s00259-014-2873-9. Green open access

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Abstract

Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of PET/MR in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. Methods Fifty consecutive consenting patients who underwent routine 18F-FDG PET/CT for potentially radically treatable lung cancer following a staging CT scan were recruited for PET/MR imaging on the same day. Two experienced readers, unaware of the results with the other modalities, interpreted the PET/MR images independently. Discordances were resolved in consensus. PET/MR TNM staging was compared to surgical staging from thoracotomy as the reference standard in 33 patients. In the remaining 17 nonsurgical patients, TNM was determined based on histology from biopsy, imaging results (CT and PET/CT) and follow-up. ROC curve analysis was used to assess accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of the PET/MR in assessing the surgical resectability of primary tumour. The kappa statistic was used to assess interobserver agreement in the PET/MR TNM staging. Two different readers, without knowledge of the PET/MR findings, subsequently separately reviewed the PET/CT images for TNM staging. The generalized kappa statistic was used to determine intermodality agreement between PET/CT and PET/MR for TNM staging. Results ROC curve analysis showed that PET/MR had a specificity of 92.3 % and a sensitivity of 97.3 % in the determination of resectability with an AUC of 0.95. Interobserver agreement in PET/MR reading ranged from substantial to perfect between the two readers (Cohen’s kappa 0.646 – 1) for T stage, N stage and M stage. Intermodality agreement between PET/CT and PET/MR ranged from substantial to almost perfect for T stage, N stage and M stage (Cohen’s kappa 0.627 – 0.823). Conclusion In lung cancer patients PET/MR appears to be a robust technique for preoperative staging.

Type: Article
Title: Non-small-cell lung cancer resectability: diagnostic value of PET/MR.
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-014-2873-9
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-014-2873-9
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.comThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
Keywords: Non-small-cell lung cancer, Lung cancer, PET/MR,TNM staging
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Department of Imaging
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Experimental and Translational Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Respiratory Medicine
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1443013
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