PSMA PET in Prostate Cancer

[pjoshea13]

New video:

youtube.com/watch?v=-E86yXT...(Not working as expected?)

-Patrick

[JLS1]

Thank you for sharing this Patrick. This is very encouraging.

[cesanon]

Thanks Patrick. Very Helpful.

[softwaremom00]

This sounds like a fantastic therapy. I hope it cures/helps a lot of men!

[Dayatatime]

There is a lot going on in this field to be hopeful for and its amazing how fast paradigms are changing. Great stuff! Thanks for posting Patrick

[Jayg57]

"We now have some details of the clinical trial of Ac-225-PSMA-617 in advanced prostate cancer patients" in Germany:

pcnrv.blogspot.com/2018/01/...

[JamesAtlanta]

Great video! Thanks for sharing. As I mentioned previously, I had a PSMA PET Scan at MD Anderson in December. They found 0 cancer evidence outside my prostate (I had a met in my spine that was treated with radiation Agee years ago - no activity there now.) So my treatment plan will next include either radiation to the prostate or a prostatectomy. All due to doctors using this new technology and also challenging old paradigms.

Hope this insight helps many others!

Best,

James

[Burnett1948]

Burnett1948.pjoshea13Thank you very much for this information. I believe my recurrent PCa will benefit from PSMA PET.

[Hidden]

I had one of these at UCSF as part of a Phase 1 clinical trail. Unfortunately, it was unable to detect the source of my rapidly increasing PSA. Like everything, it has its limitations.

[Hidden]

Wow!~ This is amazing! I hope everyone takes time to watch this video. Very interesting.

[ronton2 in reply to Hidden]

Ditto to MMacon. Do try to watch this video. It is very encouraging news in treatment of prostate cancer. Also, thanks to Pjoshea for giving us so many terrific posts. Thanks.

[leswell]

Thanks, Patrick.

OKAY! We found so much hope from Dr. Hope’s video. There’s a bit more from him at the following site: onclive.com/web-exclusives/...

In that article, he indicates that oligometastatic patients are the ones qualifying for the PSMA-Pet. (But let’s not the rest of us give up.). Now we need FDA approval, Medicare and insurance coverage, and a ton more scanners.

Sad to think of all those who could have profited from such precise scanning who ended up having unnecessary, ineffective, perhaps even lethal prostatectomies.

The day will come when today’s chemo/hormonal therapy will be seen as primitive. I believe that. Meanwhile we’ll hang in there with our Cab-5 and supplements and trust to reach a PSA someday of less than 1. (Hey, JLS1, those are my initials, and I used a 1, too. :))

Jan and Les