AROI-ESTRO GYN Teaching Course

PET / PET-CT and Cancer Cervix Para-aortic Lymph Nodal Staging

ROC curve for PET to detect aortic nodal metastasis in newly diagnosed cervical cancer, with 95% confidence intervals (Area under curve = 0.952).

PET

Sensitivity: 84% (95% CI: 68-94%)

CT

MR

Specificity: 95% (95% CI: 89-98%)

L.J. Havrilesky et al. / Gynecologic Oncology 97 (2005) 183–191