• Nucl Med Commun · Dec 2016

    Prognostic value of SUVmax measured by pretreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with primary gastric lymphoma.

    • Jae Pil Hwang, Ilhan Lim, Byung Hyun Byun, Byung Il Kim, Chang Woon Choi, and Sang Moo Lim.
    • aDepartment of Nuclear Medicine bMolecular Imaging Research Center, Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul, Korea.
    • Nucl Med Commun. 2016 Dec 1; 37 (12): 1267-1272.

    PurposeThe aim of this retrospective study was to determine whether glucose metabolism assessed by fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) PET/computed tomography (CT) provides prognostic information independent of established prognostic factors in patients with gastric lymphoma.Patients And MethodsWe reviewed the medical records of 86 patients retrospectively (men, 42; women, 44; mean age 58±13 years) with pathologically proven gastric lymphoma (34 mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue and 52 aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma). They underwent F-FDG PET/CT as part of a pretreatment work-up from February 2004 to July 2012. For the analysis, patients were classified by age, sex, Musshoff stage, serum lactate dehydrogenase, International Prognostic Index score, extragastric spread, and visual intensity [visual assessment and maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), respectively]. The relationship between F-FDG uptake and survival was analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method with a log-rank test and Cox's proportional-hazard regression method.ResultsThe median survival of all 86 study participants was 1117 days and the median SUV measured by PET/CT was 6.1 (range, 1.9-32.7). Patients with an SUVmax less than or equal to 5.2 survived significantly longer than patients with an SUVmax more than 5.2 (median, 1163 vs. 1004 days; P=0.003). Survival was also found to be significantly related to age (P=0.0005), histological type (P=0.004), extragastric spread (P=0.0004), International Prognostic Index score (P<0.0001), serum lactate dehydrogenase (P=0.02), stage (P<0.0001), and visual intensity (P=0.041). A multivariate analysis showed that patients with a higher SUVmax [P=0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.52-8.14; hazard ratio (HR)=6.29], older age (P=0.001; 95% CI, 4.64-219.96; HR=18.8), more aggressive histologic type (P=0.006; 95% CI, 2.20-70.63; HR=12.76), and higher stage (P=0.0006; 95% CI, 5.81-206.43; HR=17.48) showed worse survival.ConclusionA higher SUVmax on pretreatment F-FDG PET/CT can predict poorer survival in patients with gastric lymphoma.

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