Table 9.
Trend of serum CgA values comparing baseline and end-treatment levels are tabulated on the basis of patients' functional response in the 23/59 cases in which discordant results between CgA trend and 68Ga-peptide PET/CT results were observed.
| Functional response | CgA values | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Increased | Stable$ | Decreased | |
| PR (9/23) | 7∗ | 2 | — |
| SD (10/23) | 6∧ | — | 4§ |
| PD (4/23) | — | 4 | — |
$Variation ≤ 10%; ∗mean variation = 271 ± 220 (range 15–682); ∧mean variation = 104 ± 119 (range 3–305); §mean variation = 669 ± 554 (range 41–1343).