Positron Emission Tomography-Based Assessment of Metabolic Tumor Volume Predicts Survival after Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Hodgkin Lymphoma

• High metabolic tumor volume predicts poor post-autograft survival in Hodgkin lymphoma.• Quantitative tumor parameters may improve the predictive power of pre-transplant PET for patients with residual tumor.

Source: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation - September 20, 2017 Category: Hematology Authors: V ít Procházka, Rakhee S. Gawande, Zuzan Cayci, Jerry W. Froelich, Qing Cao, Chris Wilke, Kathryn Dusenbery, Daniel J. Weisdorf, Veronika Bachanova Source Type: research