Wu et al. and Kim et al. found that SUVs of MBP were stable but SUVmean in Kim et al. study showed a significant yet small change during chemotherapy in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma [24-25] confirming that MBP is stable and can be used to assess and normalise 18F-FDG uptake in cancer patients during treatment as applied in the Deauville scale for lymphoma [22]. This evidence concerns the gene MBP and lymphoma.