A media release issued yesterday by Progenics Pharmaceuticals states that the investigational imaging agent 18F-DCFPyL changed physician behavior in the management of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer in > 65 percent of patients. … READ MORE …
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A research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is seeking participants for a randomized, Phase III, clinical trial of the utility of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT molecular imaging for planning of salvage radiotherapy after first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A newly-reported set of data from an Australian clinical research team has now shown that 68Ga PSMA PET/CT scans changed the staging and the management of men after initial diagnosis and prior to first-line treatment compared to traditional CT and bone scanning. … READ MORE …
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Here in the USA, about half the patients diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are still (apparently) being sent for “guideline-discordant” (i.e., unnecessary) bone scans and CT scans, … READ MORE …
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A new review article suggests the possibility that radiolabeled prostate specific membrane antigens (PSMAs) and PET scans may, at some point in the not too distant future, replace bone and CT scans in diagnosis and monitoring of men with advanced forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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A new paper in JAMA Oncology has shown that between 2004 and 2007 nearly 45 percent of men initially diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer were receiving unnecessary bone scans and CT scans in some regions of the USA. … READ MORE …
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An article published a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute looks at the effects of a physician education campaign in Sweden to reduce the inappropriate use of bone scans and other imaging tests among men with an initial diagnosis of low-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Today’s news reports cover just two recent review articles, on:
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