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. 2021 Aug 24;11(9):869. doi: 10.3390/life11090869

Table 5.

Literature summary a.

Author Histology No of Pat. PET metric Corr. with Survival PET metric Not Corr. with Survival Cut off AUC
Hong 2014 [10] STS (but including ES (8)) 55 SUVmax(+avg) MTV + TLG - -
Andersen * 2015 [9] STS (55) 55 SUVmax
T/B
TLG
MTV40%
17.7
7.2
265.6 g
25.0 mL
0.797
0.787
0.780
0.694
Andersen * 2015 [13] BS (37 including 6 ES) 37 TLG
MTV40%
SUVmax
T/B
11.6
8.0
149.4 g
32.6 mL
0.630
0.593
0.773
0.727
Schuetze 2005 [30] STS 47 SUVmax correlating with DFS und MFS but not OAS (SUVmax (OS)) Predefined > 6 -
Skamene 2014 [31] STS, BS and ES 81, 23 and 16 SUVmax 10.3 -
Chang 2015 [11] STS (Synovial sarcoma) 20 SUVmax
MTV2.5abs
TLG
6.1
166.2 mL
691.7 g
-
-
-
Casey 2014 [32] STS (Rhabdomyosarcoma) 107 SUVmax (predefined 6.0)/9.5 -
Choi 2013 [12] STS 76 TLG
SUVmax
MTV40%
250 g
6.0
40 cm3
0.833
0.771
0.667
Ha 2016 [33] STS (head and neck) 36 SUVmax
SUVpeak
MTV
TLG
Tu Vol 7.0
5.0
20 mL
150.0 g
15.0 mL
0.779
0.753
0.716
0.739
0.682
Hwang 2016 [31] ES 34 SUVmax 5.8 -
Salem 2015 [19] ES 28 SUVmax 11.6 -
Jamet 2017 [17] ES 32 SUVmax
SUVpeak
MTV
TLG
17.0
12.5
-
-
-
-
-
-
Costelloe 2009 [15] BS (Osteosarcoma) 31 SUVmax (only PFS not OS)
TLG
(SUVmax (OS)) -
-
-
-

a: T/B = Tumor Background ratio, MFS = Metastatic free survival, PFS = progression free survival und OS =overall survival). * Two publications with the same population merged.