Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-26 @ 4:01 PM
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2025-12-26 @ 4:01 PM
NCT ID:
NCT03517306
Brief Summary:
The investigators investigate the utility of FDG PET/CT based radiomics in lung cancer, including diagnosis and prognosis.
Detailed Description:
Recent studies have shown that, in addition to inter-tumor heterogeneity, tumors often display startling intratumoral heterogeneity in various features including histology, gene expression, genotype, and metastatic and proliferative potential, which is often associated with adverse tumor biology. Unfortunately, it is difficult to assess intratumoral heterogeneity with random sampling or biopsy as this does not represent the full extent of phenotypic or genetic variation within a tumor. Given the limitations of current biopsy strategies, there is an important potential for medical imaging, which has the ability to capture intratumoral heterogeneity in a non-invasive way.
Borrowed from the concept in genomics and/or proteomics, radiomics was specifically proposed for medical or radiological images. It is a promising technique for improving diagnosis, staging, prognosis, treatment response prediction and potentially allowing personalization of cancer treatment. It is a process of extraction and analysis of high-dimensional image features from radiological images obtained with CT, MR or PET, which could be either qualitative or quantitative. The basic assumption of radiomics is that tumor biology could be captured by radiomic features .
The purpose of this study is to investigate the utility of FDG PET/CT based radiomics in lung cancer. Four PET/CT centers will be involved in this study, in which more than 1000 patients diagnosed as lung cancer will be retrospectively enrolled.
Study:
NCT03517306
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03517306