Posted on October 5, 2018 by Sitemaster
In a media release issued earlier this morning, Progenics Pharmaceuticals has announced the outcome of a Phase II/III trial of their proprietary, PSMA-targeted imaging agent PyL (also known as 18F-DCFPyL) for identification of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on June 26, 2018 by Sitemaster
Early this morning, Progenics Pharmaceuticals announced completion of enrollment of patients in the Phase II/III OSPREY trial of a new PSMA-targeted PET/CT imaging agent for detection of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Posted on April 4, 2018 by Sitemaster
Nearly 30 years ago, when your sitemaster first attended a prostate cancer meeting (in 1989) related to the upcoming approval of a new drug called flutamide, he doesn’t remember there being a single clinician at the meeting who was female — out of the 150 or so urologists and medical oncologists who had been invited. … READ MORE …
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Posted on March 6, 2018 by Sitemaster
A group of Italian researchers have apparently shown that a copper-64 dichloride-based radiotracing agent (64CuCl2) is better than currently-used 18FCl radiotracers in the detection of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer with PET/CT scans … READ MORE …
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Posted on October 13, 2017 by Sitemaster
So for those currently dissatisfied with the capabilities of 1.5 T and 3 T MRI imaging technology, the US Food and Drug Administration has just approved a 7 T MRI device called a “Siemens Magnetom Terra”. … READ MORE …
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Posted on September 19, 2017 by Sitemaster
Dr. Zachary Klaassen and UroToday have provided us with four more interesting summaries of presentations by faculty at the European Association for Urology (EAU)’s meeting in Vienna last weekend. … READ MORE …
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Posted on August 25, 2017 by Sitemaster
Two recent papers by Sabouri et al. have suggested that a new MRI techique known as “luminal water imaging” may be able to improve the ability of MR scans to identify and grade prostate cancer prior to biopsy. … READ MORE …
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