Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Past Issues
    • JNM Supplement
    • SNMMI Annual Meeting Abstracts
    • Continuing Education
    • JNM Podcasts
  • Subscriptions
    • Subscribers
    • Institutional and Non-member
    • Rates
    • Journal Claims
    • Corporate & Special Sales
  • Authors
    • Submit to JNM
    • Information for Authors
    • Assignment of Copyright
    • AQARA requirements
  • Info
    • Reviewers
    • Permissions
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
    • Contact Information
  • More
    • Alerts
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • SNMMI Journals
  • SNMMI
    • JNM
    • JNMT
    • SNMMI Journals
    • SNMMI

User menu

  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • SNMMI
    • JNM
    • JNMT
    • SNMMI Journals
    • SNMMI
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Past Issues
    • JNM Supplement
    • SNMMI Annual Meeting Abstracts
    • Continuing Education
    • JNM Podcasts
  • Subscriptions
    • Subscribers
    • Institutional and Non-member
    • Rates
    • Journal Claims
    • Corporate & Special Sales
  • Authors
    • Submit to JNM
    • Information for Authors
    • Assignment of Copyright
    • AQARA requirements
  • Info
    • Reviewers
    • Permissions
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About Us
    • Editorial Board
    • Contact Information
  • More
    • Alerts
    • Feedback
    • Help
    • SNMMI Journals
  • View or Listen to JNM Podcast
  • Visit JNM on Facebook
  • Join JNM on LinkedIn
  • Follow JNM on Twitter
  • Subscribe to our RSS feeds
Meeting ReportOncology - Clinical Diagnosis: Solid Tumors

PET/CT imaging in pancreatic cancer: A retrospective review

M Chaudhry and Richard Wahl
Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2009, 50 (supplement 2) 1748;
M Chaudhry
1Johns Hopkins Medical University, Div of Nuclear Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Richard Wahl
1Johns Hopkins Medical University, Div of Nuclear Medicine, Baltimore, MD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
Loading

Abstract

1748

Objectives Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease, with dismal 5 year survival rates. Earlier diagnosis and staging is crucial to overall prognosis. We are presenting retrospective analysis of the role of PET/CT imaging in pancreatic cancer.

Methods Patients undergoing FDG PET/CT with pancreatic cancer during the period 1/2004 - 12/2007 are included in this study. A total of 201 studies (n=118) were performed (45 female; 73 male, Age 31-87). Diagnostic validation was obtained by tissue sampling and/or 3 month radiological follow up. The indications for referral and performance of PET/CT imaging was evaluated by chart review.

Results Restaging disease was the most common indication, 95 studies (n=44), with 52 studies were true positive (TP), 32 true negative (TN) and 4 false negative (FN) for detection of local disease. PET/CT correctly identified systemic disease in 54 studies(TP) with 24 TN studies in this group. The sensitivity and specificity were 93% and 86%, respectively in detecting local disease and 86% and 75%, respectively in detecting metastatic disease. 68 studies (n=44) were performed for treatment monitoring. PET/CT imaging was TP in 51 studies and TN in 10 studies in identifying local disease while accurately identified systemic disease in 36 studies (TP), with 23 TN studies. 28 studies (n=28) were performed for initial staging, with 27 TP in local disease and 15 TP in metastatic disease. Only 10 studies (n=10) were performed for diagnostic purposes.Adenoca was the most common malignancy (108/118).

Conclusions In this large retrospective experience, FDG PET/CT performed well for tumor restaging as well as treatment monitoring, which may have potentially significant management and prognostic implications.

  • © 2009 by Society of Nuclear Medicine
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Vol. 50, Issue supplement 2
May 2009
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
PET/CT imaging in pancreatic cancer: A retrospective review
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Nuclear Medicine
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Nuclear Medicine web site.
Citation Tools
PET/CT imaging in pancreatic cancer: A retrospective review
M Chaudhry, Richard Wahl
Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2009, 50 (supplement 2) 1748;

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Share
PET/CT imaging in pancreatic cancer: A retrospective review
M Chaudhry, Richard Wahl
Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2009, 50 (supplement 2) 1748;
Twitter logo Facebook logo LinkedIn logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One
Bookmark this article

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

Oncology - Clinical Diagnosis: Solid Tumors

  • Comparison of FLT PET and FDG PET for the evaluation of primary head and neck cancer
  • Detection and evaluation of primary gastric malignancy by gastric expansion with milk immediately before FDG PET scanning
  • Effect of oral glucose loading after standard FDG PET/CT on the detection of liver metastases
Show more Oncology - Clinical Diagnosis: Solid Tumors

GI-Noncolorectal Posters

  • Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas: A comparison of the likelihood of invasiveness between 18F-FDG PET/CT and contrast enhanced MDCT findings
  • Gastrointestinal 18F-FDG uptake in PET/CT without corresponding morphological mass: Early predictor of cancer development?
  • Evaluation of FDG PET and CT in preoperative assessment of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas
Show more GI-Noncolorectal Posters

Similar Articles

SNMMI

© 2025 SNMMI

Powered by HighWire