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Table 3.

Multivariate analyses of PET parameters associated with survival

¹⁸F–FDG PET/CT parameters	Overall survival			Disease-free survival
¹⁸F–FDG PET/CT parameters	HR^a	95% CI	P^a	HR^a	95% CI	P^a
SUV_max > 5.0	3.44	1.01–11.71	0.048*	1.53	0.65–3.61	0.336
SUV_peak > 3.5	3.59	0.98–16.78	0.051	1.47	0.60–3.62	0.405
SUV_mean > 3.1	2.41	0.98–13.96	0.054	1.80	0.75–4.34	0.188
MTV > 2.9 mL	3.16	0.82–12.25	0.096	1.13	0.47–2.75	0.784
TLG > 9.3 g	5.74	1.20–27.44	0.029*	1.54	1.62–3.79	0.352

CI confidence interval; ¹⁸F-FDG ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose; HR hazard ratio; MTV metabolic tumour volume; PET/CT positron emission tomography/computed tomography; SUV standardized uptake value; TLG total lesion glycolysis

^aMultivariate Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were adjusted for invasion depth, lymphovascular invasion, and T and N classifications for overall survival, invasion depth, lymphovascular invasion, and T classification for disease-free survival, *P < 0.05 (see Supplementary Table S2)