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Billy W. Loo, Jr., MD, PhD, DABR

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  • Prognostic value of metabolic tumor volume and velocity in predicting head-and-neck cancer outcomes.

    Chu KP, Murphy JD, La TH, Krakow TE, Iagaru A, Graves EE, Hsu A, Maxim PG, Loo B, Chang DT, Le QT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012; 83 (5): 1521-7

    We previously showed that metabolic tumor volume (MTV) on positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) predicts for disease recurrence and death in head-and-neck cancer (HNC). We hypothesized that increases in MTV over time would correlate with tumor growth and biology, and would predict outcome. We sought to examine tumor growth over time in serial pretreatment PET-CT scans.

    PubMedID: 22270168

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