Supporting Information
Additional supporting information may be found online in the Supporting
Information section at the end of the article.
Figure S1. Results for primary SUVmax for DFS. (A) Forest plots of the
HRs for SUVmax. (B) Begg’s funnel plot for SUVmax. (C) Sensitivity
analysis of the influence of each individual study on the pooled HR for
SUVmax.
Figure S2. Results for nodal SUVmax for DFS. (A) Forest plots of the
HRs. (B) Begg’s funnel plot. (C) Sensitivity analysis of the influence
of each individual study on the pooled HR.
Figure S3. Results for primary SUVmax for OS. (A) Forest plots of the
HRs. (B) Begg’s funnel plot. (C) Sensitive analysis of the influence of
each individual study on the pooled HR.
Figure S4. Results for primary SUVmean, TLG and nodal SUVmax, and for
OS. (A) Forest plots of the HRs with primary SUVmean. (B) Forest plots
of the HRs with primary TLG. (C) Forest plots of the HRs with nodal
SUVmax.
Table S1. Searching strategy.
Table S2. Summary of prognostic results about pretreatment FDG PET
parameters as a continuous variable
Table S3. Summary of prognostic results about FDG PET parameters during
treatment.
Table S4. Information about PET/CT technique and image analysis