Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality

68Ga-PSMA ligand PET/CT for imaging prostate cancer is a novel imaging technique, which is rapidly gaining popularity. Sufficient evidence has been accumulated in literature regarding the usefulness of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT in prostate cancer. Recently literature regarding the localization of (68)Ga-PS...

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Autor principal: Sasikumar, Arun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5317061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28242976
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.198449
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description 68Ga-PSMA ligand PET/CT for imaging prostate cancer is a novel imaging technique, which is rapidly gaining popularity. Sufficient evidence has been accumulated in literature regarding the usefulness of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT in prostate cancer. Recently literature regarding the localization of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT imaging in non-prostatic malignancies is also published, thus questioning the specificity of the tracer with regards to prostate cancer. This commentary tries to address the issue of specificity of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT and its relevance in imaging prostate cancer.
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spelling pubmed-53170612017-02-27 Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality Sasikumar, Arun Indian J Nucl Med Editorial 68Ga-PSMA ligand PET/CT for imaging prostate cancer is a novel imaging technique, which is rapidly gaining popularity. Sufficient evidence has been accumulated in literature regarding the usefulness of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT in prostate cancer. Recently literature regarding the localization of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT imaging in non-prostatic malignancies is also published, thus questioning the specificity of the tracer with regards to prostate cancer. This commentary tries to address the issue of specificity of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT and its relevance in imaging prostate cancer. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5317061/ /pubmed/28242976 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.198449 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality
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title_full Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality
title_fullStr Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality
title_full_unstemmed Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality
title_short Specificity of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for Prostate Cancer - Myths and Reality
title_sort specificity of (68)ga-psma pet/ct for prostate cancer - myths and reality
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5317061/
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