Objective: The present study aimed to assess the prognostic interest of metabolic and anatomic parameters derived from 2-deoxy-2-[F]fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ([F]FDG PET/CT) and head and neck magnetic resonance imaging (HN-MRI) for better management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
Methods: In this study, pre-treatment [F]FDG PET/CT and HN-MRI parameters of NPC patients diagnosed between January 2017 and December 2018, were prospectively investigated. Correlation between those parameters and 4-year patient's survival outcomes was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier and Cox-regression analyses.
Results: Our results revealed a significant association between pre-treatment nodal-maximum standardized uptake value (N-SUV max) and N categories (p = 0.01), between pre-treatment node-to-tumor SUV ratio (NTR) and both tumor size (p = 0.01) and N categories (p = 0.009), as well as between metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and both tumor size and NPC overall stage (p < 0.000). In multivariate analyses, pre-treatment N-SUV max, NTR and MTV were significant independent predictors of overall survival, distant metastasis-free survival, and progression-free survival (PFS) (p < 0.05). N-SUV max and MTV were also found to be significant independent predictors of loco-regional recurrence-free survival (p < 0.05), whereas HN-MRI detection of skull-base bone invasion was an independent factor associated with worse PFS in NPC (p = 0.03).
Conclusions: The present study highlights N-SUV max, NTR and MTV derived from [F]FDG PET/CT, and skull-base bone invasion defined by HN-MRI, as promising metabolic and anatomic prognosis biomarkers for NPC.
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