For men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer, PSMA PET has a moderate sensitivity but very high specificity for identifying lymph nodes in the pelvis that harbor prostate cancer; this means that an ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- New technology that's allowing doctors to pinpoint prostate cancer long before it becomes a threat is now widely available. A former firefighter mentioned how this new imaging ...

Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital is the first institution in our area to offer the new FDA approved and NCCN-indicated, prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging agent to ...

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 ...

Getty Images Use of 68 Ga-PSMA PET/CT may avoid unnecessary biopsies in some men with equivocal PI-RADS 3 lesions on mpMRI. Gallium 68-labelled prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission ...

PSMA PET imaging for evaluation of recurrent or persistent prostate cancer after primary prostate radiation. Differences between whole body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) and chest/abdomen/pelvis ...

Using nuclear medicine, researchers have found a way to accurately differentiate cancerous tissue from healthy tissue in prostate cancer patients. The research demonstrates that the maximum ...

A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center helps identify which patients with prostate cancer will benefit most from the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the US. There’s a new and promising diagnostic procedure for prostate cancer known as ...

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 ...