Effects of cigarette smoking on metabolic activity of lung cancer on baseline ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Never-smokers with lung cancer usually have a higher survival rate than that of smokers. The high metabolic activity of lung cancer on ¹⁸F-2-Fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (¹⁸F-FDG) PET/CT generally indicates a poor outcome. However, there is a lack of reports on the association between cigarette smoking and ¹⁸F-FDG metabolic activity in patients with lung cancer. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of cigarette smoking on metabolic activity of lung cancer on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT.

Materials and methods

A total of 338 patients (230 males, 108 females; mean age: 66.3, range 34-86) with pathologically diagnosed lung cancer were enrolled from September 2019 to April 2021. All patients underwent baseline ¹⁸F-FDG PE

SUBMITTER: Jiang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9048646 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature