In elderly patients with suspected prostate cancer, PSMA PET/CT can diagnose advanced disease and aid in therapy selection without the need for a biopsy. Published in the July issue of The Journal of ...

Getty Images PSMA PET/CT appears highly likely to identify and stage prostate cancer in patients at least 80 years old with a PSA level of at least 20 ng/mL, even without biopsy confirmation, ...

Researchers in Denmark conducted a prospective single-centre study including 160 patients with newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer between 2021 and 2024. All the participants first underwent an ...

Detection of prostate cancer and its recurrence is challenging as it is a heterogeneous disease and methods such as PET imaging and measurement of biochemical response using prostate specific membrane ...

Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a protein found in small amounts in your prostate gland. When you have prostate cancer, you have many times more PSMA than normal. This makes PSMA a good ...

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 ...

Getty Images In a study, a positive PSMA PET/CT scan was associated with a significant 4.5-fold higher adjusted risk for disease progression. Positive results on PSMA PET/CT scans predict more ...

This looked at using a scan called a PSMA PET-CT scan to find prostate cancer cells in nearby lymph nodes. These are lymph nodes in the area between the hipbones (pelvis). It was for men having ...