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Article: EP. 2B: New Horizons in Nuclear Medicine for Prostate Cancer

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September 30, 2021

In an interview with Targeted Oncology™,Phillip Koo, MD, discusses both the role of novel PSMA tracers in prostate cancer imaging and the promise that theranostics, including LuPSMA, hold for prostate cancer therapy.

The success noted during the VISION trial created another exciting possibility—that theranostics such as focusing onPSMA might not only detect, but also treat, prostate cancer. Although investigators studied the drug in a specific population of patients with late stage, highly pretreated prostate cancer, clinicians and researchers who have reviewed the trial’s results have become excited about the possibility of using theranostics to treat men given a diagnosis of this disease at earlier disease states such as the hormone sensitive setting.

In the second interview of the series, Phillip Koo, MD, chief of Diagnostic Imaging and physician executive at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses both the role of novel PSMA tracers in prostate cancer imaging and the promise that theranostics like LuPSMA holds for prostate cancer therapy.

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6357axbz

Good post ! Thank-you

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Shooter1

Lots of advancements and changes in therapy from where I started 5 years ago. New guys may get a lot of benefits from those who participated in trials before them. We owe them all a round of applause.

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TheTopBanana

Thank you!

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j-o-h-n

Gregory, Now you're showing off.........BUT thanks again....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 10/02/2021 8:42 PM DST

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