Release Date: 2024-06-10

68Ga PSMA PET/CT in Patients with Prostate Cancer

Release Date: 2024-06-10

Prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT) is a new method of imaging prostate cancer that increases diagnostic accuracy in detecting reccurrent disease or metastasis and guiding therapy. Gallium-68 PSMA ligand PET/CT has increased sensitivity of detection of local recurrence or metastases at low PSA levels. PSMA PET/CT has also inceased sensitivity and [...]

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    Published inThe Radiology of Cancer
    First Page498
    Last Page504
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.69860/nobel.9786053359364.31
    Page Count7
    Copyright HolderNobel Tıp Kitabevleri
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    Prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT) is a new method of imaging prostate cancer that increases diagnostic accuracy in detecting reccurrent disease or metastasis and guiding therapy. Gallium-68 PSMA ligand PET/CT has increased sensitivity of detection of local recurrence or metastases at low PSA levels. PSMA PET/CT has also inceased sensitivity and specificity of detection of primary disease localisation and in detecting metastases at initial staging. In advence disease PSMA PET/CT may be able to evaluate response to chemotherapy or radionuclide therapies. This book chapter discusses the literatüre, clinical utility and our clinical experience of Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT imaging needed to improve clinical practice.

    Sadiye Altun Tuzcu (Author)
    Associate Professor, Dicle University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3326-5358
    3Associate Professor Şadiye Altun Tuzcu graduated from Dicle University Faculty of Medicine in 1996. She received her specialty training at Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, between 2001 and 2005. After working in public hospitals and various private institutions, she worked as an academician at Dicle University, Department of Nuclear Medicine in 2019. She has many national and international research articles, posters and oral presentations, book chapters in her field.

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