Impact of Primary Tumor Diameter and SUVmax on Pathological Lymph Node Involvement in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
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Impact of Primary Tumor Diameter and SUVmax on Pathological Lymph Node Involvement in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

1. Mehmet Akif İnan Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Medical Oncology, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
2. Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, Aydın, Turkey
3. Aydın Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Aydın, Turkey
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Received Date: 09.04.2024
Accepted Date: 19.07.2024
Online Date: 31.10.2024
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ABSTRACT

Aim: The aim of our study was to determine the role of preoperative primary tumor diameter (PTD) and maximum standardized uptake (SUVmax) values on preoperative 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) in predicting regional lymph node (LN) involvement, lymphatic invasion (LI), vascular invasion (VI), and pleural invasion (PI) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were operated without receiving neoadjuvant therapy.

Methods: A total of 70 patients diagnosed with NSCLC who underwent surgery after 18F-FDG PET/CT but did not receive neoadjuvant therapy were retrospectively examined. The effects of PTD and SUVmax on postoperative LN involvement, LI, VI, and PI in patient groups below and above the determined threshold value on preoperative 18F-FDG PET/CT were compared. Since an optimal cut-off value for specificity and sensitivity was not obtained with the receiver operating characteristic curve for both the PTD and SUVmax of the primary tumor, patients were grouped based on the median values for the two parameters.

Results: The median PTD was 32 mm. The median SUVmax of 12.55 was obtained, and patients were grouped according to these median values. No significant difference was found in the primary tumor diameters ≥32 mm and <32 mm in terms of pathological LN involvement (p=0.322), VI (p=0.122), LI (p=0.122) and PI (p=1.000). Again, no significant difference was found in the patient groups with SUVmax values of the primary tumor ≥12.55 and <12.55 regarding pathological LN involvement (p=0.621), VI (p=0.122), LI (p=0.122), and PI (p=1.000). A low positive correlation (p=0.000, r=0.447) was found between the PTD and SUVmax values.

Conclusion: 18F-FDG PET/CT alone is not a reliable noninvasive method for predicting LN metastasis in patients with early-stage NSCLC for whom curative treatment is planned.

Keywords:
Lung cancer, 18F-FDG PET/CT, invasion, lymph node involvement