TY - JOUR AU - Ueno, Daiki AU - Yao, Masahiro AU - Tateishi, Ukihide AU - Minamimoto, Ryogo AU - Makiyama, Kazuhide AU - Hayashi, Narihiko AU - Sano, Futoshi AU - Murakami, Takayuki AU - Kishida, Takeshi AU - Miura, Takeshi AU - Kobayashi, Kazuki AU - Noguchi, Sumio AU - Ikeda, Ichiro AU - Ohgo, Yoshiharu AU - Inoue, Tomio AU - Kubota, Yoshinobu AU - Nakaigawa, Noboru PY - 2012 DA - 2012/05/02 TI - Early assessment by FDG-PET/CT of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors is predictive of disease course JO - BMC Cancer SP - 162 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - We reported previously that 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/ computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) had potential for evaluating early response to treatment by tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This time we investigated the relation of the early assessment by FDG PET/CT to long-term prognosis with an expanded number of patients and period of observation. SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-162 DO - 10.1186/1471-2407-12-162 ID - Ueno2012 ER -