Pretreatment 18 F-FDG uptake heterogeneity can predict survival in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma——a retrospective study

Intratumoural heterogeneity has been demonstrated to be a strong indicator of malignant transformation. Our study was to investigate pretreatment (18)F-FDG parameters, including (18)F-FDG based heterogeneity for predicting survival in patients with locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).Forty newly diagnosed, biopsy-proven locally advanced NPC patients who underwent (18)F-FDG PET/CT were retrospectively included. The following PET...