A small, Norwegian, Phase II clinical trial has explored the potential diagnostic value of [18F]fluciclovine PET/MRI scans of the pelvic lymph nodes in staging for patients with high-risk prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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The advent of imaging tests like the [11C]choline PET/CT scan and others have made it possible to identify, relatively early, the presence of one or more foci of recurrent prostate cancer after first-line therapy, and often these recurrent foci can be found in patients’ pelvic lymph nodes. … READ MORE …
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With the introduction of robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) there came suggestions from some surgeons that this technique made pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) more difficult. However, a new review by a respected international group of authors clearly disagrees with this suggestion. … READ MORE …
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One of the hardest things to be able to do, currently, in a man with progressive prostate cancer after first- or second-line therapy, is to determine his risk for lymph node-positive prostate cancer or LNPPC (i.e., one of the earliest and more common components of metastatic prostate cancer). … READ MORE …
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A technique known as sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) has replaced extended lymphadenectomy for nodal staging in several types of solid tumor cancers. … READ MORE …
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