Tall Alan, where can one get a PSCA scan? And is it covered by Medicare?

[Farmhand]

PSCA scans and where to get them

[Javelin18]

There isn't a PSCA scan available. The only ones that have been done are on mice.

[cesces in reply to Javelin18]

Phase I Study to evaluate124I-A11 PSCA Minibody in Patients With Metastatic Prostate, Bladder and Pancreatic Cancer - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov

Https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02092948

[Javelin18 in reply to cesces]

Thanks for correcting my reply

[cesces in reply to Javelin18]

Not a correction. An affirmation with a bit more detail.

[Javelin18 in reply to cesces]

Thanks. I remember seeing that study now. Left me wondering about the results.

[Tall_Allen]

It is possible in a clinical trial. Who knows if it works? You can have IHC of a metastasis for PSCA at COH or some specialized pathology labs.

[Farmhand in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thankyou!

[Farmhand in reply to Tall_Allen]

Do blood tests exist to detect PSCAs?

[Tall_Allen in reply to Farmhand]

Not that I'm aware of

[Farmhand in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thanks

[Cooolone]

Why the interest in PSCA?

[Farmhand in reply to Cooolone]

Because the investigational treatments that I am using (KAT…dr. Young Ko’s formulation of 3BP ) kill prostate cancer stem cells… Trying to figure out good ways of tracking efficacy. Another option is liquid biopsy CTC but only two options with that: Cell search, which only collects CDC’s of epithelial origin, or Rare Cell, but that can only be done in France at the moment I’m pretty sure. Most interested in seeing if there are any CTC’s in the blood after IV infusions.

[Farmhand in reply to Farmhand]

Possibly could use Stage Zero To check for mRNA fragments of CTC’s but this would not be qualitative or quantitative