Responses to first-line treatment in two groups according to meanSUVmax at each stage
| Response | Limited disease | Extensive disease | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low SUV | High SUV | P* | Low SUV | High SUV | P* | |||||
| CR+PR | 20 (77%) | 15 (100%) | 0.07 | 8 (67%) | 14 (63%) | 0.73 | ||||
| SD+PD | 6 (23%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (33%) | 9 (39%) | ||||||
NOTE: In each stage, patients were divided into groups with low SUV (meanSUVmax <8.7) and the group with high SUV (meanSUVmax ≥8.7), according to the median value of the meanSUVmax.
Abbreviations: CR, complete response; PR, partial response; SD, stable disease; PD, progressive disease.
↵* Frequency, as tested by the Fisher's exact test.