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Stephan K Haerle1, M B Soyka, D T Schmid
1Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. stephan.haerle@usz.ch
Background:
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of (18) F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose ((18) F-FDG) PET/CT on survival for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma correlated with a matched patient cohort.
Methods:
In all, disease in 58 patients was initially staged using (18) F-FDG PET/CT. A case-control analysis was done with 63 patients who disease was staged without (18) F-FDG-PET/CT.
Results:
Disease-specific survival (DSS) and overall survival (OS) did not show significant differences between both groups. Statistical analysis revealed no difference in DSS and OS between the 2 groups for patients treated by radiochemotherapy (p = .975 and p = .671). In the analysis of survival in patients treated by a combined approach (surgery + radiochemotherapy), a significant difference in favor of patients evaluated by (18) F-FDG PET/CT was found (p = .05 and p = .027).
Conclusions:
Addition of (18) F-FDG PET/CT in patients treated by surgery and conformal radiochemotherapy improves outcome. This may be due to the more comprehensive topographic orientation of the primary tumor for the surgeon.
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