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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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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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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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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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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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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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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