No.1 scan showed 2 spots. After Radiation second scan negative but PSA rising from .15 to .7 over 6 months. How many can I have in a year? Other accurate scan alternatives?
PSMA PET/CT scans. : No.1 scan showed... - Advanced Prostate...
PSMA PET/CT scans.
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It is not important to identify all metastases large enough and PSMA-avid enough to show up on a PSMA PET scan. Metastases will always proliferate and grow.
is having many scan a year harmful
Therapeutic IMRT radiation treatment involves about 1000 times higher dose _per_ session of a diagnostic scan. For those of us that have had 20 or more IMRT sessions, the incremental risk of a diagnostic scan is negligible. SBRT is a form of RT that has even higher doses. Once we have RT most long term SE's are baked-in so to speak.
Just had to translate that (love a challenge).
Don't let the wet be afraid of the rain.
Great proverb!
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