LU177 Treatment

[JanJames]

Can anyone give me details of LU177 treatment in Germany, ideally in Munich but would welcome any suggestions please.

Regards

Jan

[tango65]

I had Lu 177 treatment at The Technical University of Munich in 2016. The hospital is called Klinikum Rechts der Isar. The cost is around 8 to 9 thousand euros. It includes the 3 nights at the hospital and the post treatment scans and blood tests. I arranged directly with the doctors and the hospital administration.

They consider patients who are hormone sensitive. I recommed this place. Good doctors, top equipment, good experience with Lu 177 treatments. They have published several articles about Lu 177 PSMA IT treatment.

[JanJames in reply to tango65]

Thanks so much do you have any contact numbers I am finding it difficult finding a phone number for international patients.

Are you from Uk

How did you manage to send scans etc or was there no need?

I am starting to panick as my husbands disease is progressing quickly

Regards

Jan

[GP24 in reply to JanJames]

Here are the contacts:

mri.tum.de/node/5909

mri.tum.de/international-pa...

They mention discounted flights on the second link.

[Dbethune in reply to JanJames]

Another option is Heidelberg where the treatment was invented. They are currently using a combination of Lutetium and Actinium. I have had two treatments. First visit was to determine suitability using s PSMA scan, a week later I had first treatment, 8 weeks later second and third will be in five weeks. I spend two nights in hospital - it’s a German legal requirement. Private room with WC and quite comfortable. Cost is about 8 - 9k Euros per treatment - a bit more for first one as it included the PSMA scan.

The professor there is Uwe Haberkorn, the treatment is led by Dr Kratchowil. You can apply for treatment here

telemedicine.med.uni-heidel...

And more details in English are here

heidelberg-university-hospi...

Good luck

[JanJames in reply to Dbethune]

Hi

We had applied for treatment at Heidelberg spent a lot of time forwarding reports etc they required a PSMA scan which we had in London last week and uploaded the images to them as they requested, acknowledgement received and told that all images and medical reports had been passed to the appropriate department and we would hear within one week.

The following day we received an email to say that they were unable to treat my husband but advised us to go to a different hospital. When we asked why and was this because his cancer was not PSMA positive she replied and said it was due to the pressure of work in the department. We were bitterly disappointed and also annoyed that they allowed us to put so much info together over a period of 3 weeks this also involved our oncologist and IT department at the Cancer hospital, they were aware from the beginning that we were interested in LU177.

Many thanks for the info on Munich which we will now pursue.

Jan

[j-o-h-n in reply to JanJames]

So much for German efficiency.

Good Luck and Good Health.

j-o-h-n Thursday 10/18/2018 5:42 PM EDT

[The_Don5 in reply to tango65]

is this PSMA IT any less effective than the PSMA 617 though?