Assessment of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET accuracy in localizing recurrent prostate cancer: A prospective singl

This sounds pretty good detecting down to around 2 for BCR


Assessment of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET accuracy in localizing recurrent prostate cancer: A prospective single-arm clinical trial


Larry

I am part of a clinical trial that is using this scan. Picked up 2 possitive lymph nodes at PSA=1.17.

Dave

Here maybe: Assessment of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET Accuracy in Localizing Recurrent Prostate Cancer: A Prospective Single-Arm Clinical Trial

...Jerry

thnx guys! 👍

I just had the Ga-PSMA PET last week as part of a trial at Mayo. In my case it didn't seem to add anything that wasn't already known from the choline 11 done the day before. My PSA was 1.4. But if PSMA is found to be much more sensitive and specific than choline 11 or some of the other scans in may be useful for me. Time will tell and I am waiting to hear back on recommended treatment.
I was very anxious to re-start treatment once my PSA started to go up in December but could not be scheduled into this study until last week so I waited. I hated the waiting. It made me very nervous to wait since I am a believer in early and aggressive treatment. However, I think it is very important to participate in clinical studies as this is how new treatments and diagnostic modalities are developed.

Rochester

I saw my home town MO last Friday. She advised leuprolide and RT. I'll be seeing the RT guy in two days and starting back on leuprolide the same day ( if this were a smart phone I'd insert a big frowny face, maybe with a little tear on it, here). Meanwhile Mayo called and said the same and said be sure to take the leuprolide for three or four months before the RT so that the number of tumor cells that end up needing RT is reduced as low as possible-- better result.
And this makes sense to me. I'm hoping that this is the only met and I can still be cured. But even if this isn't curable it makes sense to me to keep the number of cancer cells as low as possible for as long as possible at least if one can do that without too much toxicity.

Yes, I know that the likelihood is that I have more than one met but a guy can hope so I want to go for a cure, still at this point. Also, even if I have other mets perhaps this one is the fastest growing and therefore the most dangerous to my long term well being so blasting the heck out of it makes sense to me. Also, it is in a location that can be radiated without too much in the way of side effects. Hopefully I won't get any or only a little proctitis.