Numbers of Patients with Respective Characteristics
Patient group | Visually graded tracer uptake in metastases | Clinical outcome | |||||
Faint | Heterogeneous | Intense | PR | SD | MR | PD | |
All 100 | 19 | 31 | 50 | 30 | 19 | 15 | 36 |
The 65 without CgA confounders | 11 | 23 | 31 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 23 |
Faint = tracer uptake at or below liver level at baseline scintigraphy; heterogeneous = uptake between liver and salivary gland level at baseline scintigraphy; intense = uptake above salivary gland level at baseline scintigraphy; PR = partial remission (PSA < 50% of baseline level, tumor uptake < baseline level); SD = stable disease (change in PSA within −50% to +30% of baseline level, stable semiquantitative uptake and no new lesions in posttherapeutic imaging); MR = mixed response (change in PSA within −50% to +30% of baseline level, heterogeneous semiquantitative uptake in known lesions. No new lesions in posttherapeutic scintigraphy); PD = progression of disease (PSA > 30% of baseline level, occurrence of new lesions or increase in all known lesions).