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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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01-10-2018 | Original Article

⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT: a promising new technique for predicting risk stratification and metastatic risk of prostate cancer patients

Authors: Chen Liu, Teli Liu, Ning Zhang, Yiqiang Liu, Nan Li, Peng Du, Yong Yang, Ming Liu, Kan Gong, Xing Yang, Hua Zhu, Kun Yan, Zhi Yang

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 11/2018

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT in predicting risk stratification and metastatic risk of prostate cancer.

Methods

Fifty newly diagnosed patients with prostate cancer as confirmed by needle biopsy were continuously included, 40 in a train set and ten in a test set. ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT and clinical data of all patients were retrospectively analyzed. Semi-quantitative analysis of PET images provided maximum standardized uptake (SUVmax) of primary prostate cancer and volumetric parameters including intraprostatic PSMA-derived tumor volume (iPSMA-TV) and intraprostatic total lesion PSMA (iTL-PSMA). According to prostate cancer risk stratification criteria of the NCCN Guideline, all patients were simplified into a low-intermediate risk group or a high-risk group. The semi-quantitative parameters of ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT were used to establish a univariate logistic regression model for high-risk prostate cancer and its metastatic risk, and to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of the predictive model.

Results

In the train set, 30/40 (75%) patients had high-risk prostate cancer and 10/40 (25%) patients had low-to-moderate-risk prostate cancer; in the test set, 8/10 (80%) patients had high-risk prostate cancer while 2/10 (20%) had low-intermediate risk prostate cancer. The univariate logistic regression model established with SUVmax, iPSMA-TV and iTL-PSMA could all effectively predict high-risk prostate cancer; the AUC of ROC were 0.843, 0.802 and 0.900, respectively. Based on the test set, the sensitivity and specificity of each model were 87.5% and 50% for SUVmax, 62.5% and 100% for iPSMA-TV, and 87.5% and 100% for iTL-PSMA, respectively. The iPSMA-TV and iTL-PSMA-based predictive model could predict the metastatic risk of prostate cancer, the AUC of ROC was 0.863 and 0.848, respectively, but the SUVmax-based prediction model could not predict metastatic risk.

Conclusions

Semi-quantitative analysis indexes of ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT imaging can be used as “imaging biomarkers” to predict risk stratification and metastatic risk of prostate cancer.

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Title: 68Ga-PSMA-617 PET/CT: a promising new technique for predicting risk stratification and metastatic risk of prostate cancer patients
Authors: Chen Liu
Teli Liu
Ning Zhang
Yiqiang Liu
Nan Li
Peng Du
Yong Yang
Ming Liu
Kan Gong
Xing Yang
Hua Zhu
Kun Yan
Zhi Yang
Publication date: 01-10-2018
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 11/2018
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-018-4037-9

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