A Pilot Trial of Serial 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in Patients With Medically Inoperable Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Hypofractionated Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

A substantial proportion of patients may have moderately elevated FDG-PET SUVmax at 12 months without evidence of local failure on further follow-up. Thus, slightly elevated PET SUVmax should not be considered a surrogate for local treatment failure. Our data do not support routine serial FDG-PET/computed tomography for follow-up of patients receiving SBRT for Stage I NSCLC.