Prospective Analysis of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Predictive Value in Patients with Low Rectal Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy and Conservative Surgery

Table 5

¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT results regarding (y)pTNM.

	T complete responders	T partial/nonresponders	𝑡	𝑃
	12/56 (21.5%)	44/56 (78.5%)
SUVmax1	15.82 (7.11)	18.72 (9.25)	−1.003	0.320
SUVmean1	8.30 (3.60)	9.45 (4.44)	−0.825	0.413
SUVmax2	4.17 (1.98)	7.38 (3.09)	−4.353	0
SUVmean2	1.92 (0.98)	3.38 (1.52)	−3.976	0
ΔSUVmax	11.65 (6.72)	11.33 (8.39)	0.121	0.904
ΔSUVmean	6.37 (3.50)	6.01 (4.17)	0.274	0.785
RImax	70.32 (17.84)	54.57 (22.14)	2.26	0.027
RImean	73.73 (17.60)	57.37 (24.78)	2.595	0.016

Mean values and standard deviations are reported.