一项新的研究显示,基础正电子发射断层成像(position emission tomography,PET)可预测非转移性食管癌患者的存活期。这一研究结果刊登在新出版的《肿瘤杂志》上。美国休斯顿德州大学安德森癌症研究中心的Jaffer A Ajani及其同事发现,基础PET检查异常部位>1处的患者比只有1处异常者预后及无病存活期明显较差。尽管回顾性研究应用大量患者的前瞻性研究来证实,但 A new study shows that basic positron emission tomography (PET) predicts the survival of non-metastatic esophageal cancer patients. The results of this study published in the newly published “Journal of Oncology.” Jaffer A Ajani and colleagues at the Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, Houston, Texas, found that patients who had> 1 basal PET abnormalities had significantly poorer outcomes and disease-free survival than those with only 1 abnormality. Although retrospective studies using a large number of patients with prospective studies to confirm, but