Monitoring of heterogeneous tumour response patterns on serial FDG-
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Early metabolic changes (i.e. variations in FDG uptake) provided
additional prognostic information in multivariate analyses
57 pts with esophageal cancer underwent FDG-PET/CT before CRT
(PET1) and at 21
±
3 days after the beginning of CRT (PET2)
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