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Tong Dong Rui1, Yue Dong1, Ling Song Qing1
1Department of Radiology, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, LiaoNing Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shenyang, Liaoning, PR China.
Background:
Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) can provide information on blood perfusion as a reliable marker of tumor response to therapy.
Purpose:
To assess the role of volume CTP (vCTP) parameters in predicting treatment response to concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) for cervical cancer.
Material And Methods:
Thirty-three patients with cervical cancer underwent vCTP. Three CTP parameters of cervical cancer-including arterial flow (AF), blood volume (BV), and permeability surface (PS)-were measured in two different ways: the region of interest incorporating the "local hot" with the highest enhancement and "cold spot" with the lowest enhancement; and "whole-tumor" measurements. The patients were divided into non-residual and residual tumor groups according to the short-term response to treatment. The clinical and perfusion parameters were compared between the two groups.
Results:
There was no significant difference in age, body mass index, FIGO stage, pathological grade, or pretreatment tumor size between the two groups (P > 0.05). The non-residual tumor group had higher pretreatment AF in high-perfusion and low-perfusion subregions than the residual tumor group (P <0.05), but the AF in whole-tumor regions was not different between the two groups (P > 0.05). There were no differences in BV and PS between the two groups (P > 0.05). The diagnostic potency of AF in the low-perfusion subregion was higher than that in the high-perfusion subregion.
Conclusion:
vCTP parameters are valuable for the prediction of short-term effects. The AF in the low-perfusion subregion was a more effective index for predicting treatment response to CCRT of cervical cancer.
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