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Figure 3. Kaplan–Meier plot showing overall survival of patients with gastric cancer treated by pre-operative chemotherapy (CTx). Patients with a metabolic response 14 days after initiation of therapy are characterised by a markedly better prognosis than patients without a metabolic response. Reproduced with kind permission of the American Society of Clinical Oncology from: Ott K, et al. Prediction of response to preoperative chemotherapy in gastric carcinoma by metabolic imaging: results of a prospective trial. J Clin Oncol 2003;21:4604–10.
