Scan that makes prostate cancer cells glow could cut need for biopsies

An imaging test could safely halve the number of people who need a biopsy for suspected prostate cancer following ...
Health And Pharma

PSMA PET/CT May Transform Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Reduce Biopsies by 50%

New findings from the phase III PRIMARY2 trial presented at EAU26 suggest that PSMA PET/CT imaging after inconclusive or reassuring MRI can safely reduce prostate biopsies by about 50 percent without ...
Cure Today

DNA Test Outperforms PET/CT Scans When Detecting Lymphoma

The Foresight CLARITY test offers greater prognostic accuracy than PET/CT scans in large B-cell lymphoma by detecting ctDNA-MRD negativity, indicating better patient outcomes. ctDNA-MRD testing showed ...
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Aga Khan University Hospital conducts first prostate PET-CT scan

Daniel Oguna, a PET CT technologist prepares a patient for a scan procedure at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi. [Photo: Standard] The latest and most advanced scan for evaluation of patients ...
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center performs nation’s first surgery using latest generation of intraoperative PET-CT scan technology

Dr. Michael Topf performed the initial surgery along with several others in the weeks following as part of a study that seeks to demonstrate the long-term viability of the procedure. Surgeons in ...
Nature

The role of PET in follow-up of patients treated for differentiated epithelial thyroid cancers

This article provides an update on the use of 2-[18 F]-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose PET in the follow-up of patients treated for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Although DTC recurrence is principally ...