Feng-Yuan Liu, Wei-Chun Chen, Yu-Bin Pan, Chun-Chieh Wang, Yun-Hsin Tang, Hung-Hsueh Chou, Angel Chao, Lan-Yan Yang, Chyong-Huey Lai
BACKGROUND: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) is the standard of care for locally advanced cervical cancer. In this study, we analyzed the pretreatment clinical and 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) characteristics of patients with locally advanced cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to develop a scoring prototype for risk stratification. METHODS: Two cohorts were constructed in this study. Cohort 1 comprised patients with cervical SCC with 2009 FIGO stage III-IVA or stage I-II with positive pelvic or para-aortic lymph node (PALN) on PET/CT from AGOG09-001 trial...
January 8, 2024: Cancer Medicine