The purpose of this article is to review the status and limitations of anatomic tumor response
metrics including the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, the Response Evaluation …

[18F] Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) assesses a
fundamental property of neoplasia, the Warburg effect. This molecular imaging technique …

18F-FDG PET is often used in clinical routine for diagnosis, staging, and response to therapy
assessment or prediction. The standardized uptake value (SUV) in the primary or regional …

Background In patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric
junction (AEG), early metabolic response defined by 18-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET ([18 F] …

Purpose Attempts to improve survival of patients with esophageal cancer have been made
using induction chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by surgery. A large single-center …

Purpose To evaluate the time course of therapy-induced changes in tumor glucose use
during chemoradiotherapy of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and to correlate …

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the use of positron emission tomography with the
glucose analog fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) to predict response to chemotherapy in …

Recently, the thymidine analog 3′-deoxy-3′-18F-fluorothymidine (FLT) was suggested for
imaging tumoral proliferation. In this prospective study, we examined whether 18F-FLT …

Esophageal and Esophagogastric Junction Cancers in: Journal of the National
Comprehensive Cancer Network Volume 9 Issue 8 (2011) Jump to Content User Account …

PET with the glucose analog 18F-FDG is increasingly used to monitor tumor response in
patients undergoing chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy. Numerous studies have shown …