Imaging Biomarkers of Tumor Response in Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases Treated with Transarterial Chemoembolization: Can Enhancing Tumor Burden of the Whole Liver Help Predict Patient Survival?
Sahu S, Schernthaner R, Ardon R, Chapiro J, Zhao Y, Sohn JH, Fleckenstein F, Lin M, Geschwind JF, Duran R. Imaging Biomarkers of Tumor Response in Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases Treated with Transarterial Chemoembolization: Can Enhancing Tumor Burden of the Whole Liver Help Predict Patient Survival? Radiology 2016, 283: 160838. PMID: 27831830, PMCID: PMC5425309, DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2016160838.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeuroendocrine liver metastasesWorld Health OrganizationContrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imagesFirst TACE procedureResponse Evaluation CriteriaKaplan-Meier curvesTreatment response biomarkersTransarterial chemoembolization proceduresInstitutional review boardFirst TACELiver methodLiver metastasesIndependent predictorsTumor burdenRetrospective studyTACE proceduresCox regressionOnly biomarkerSurvival differencesChemoembolization proceduresTreatment responseResponse biomarkersPatientsSolid tumorsNormal liver