Lutetium versus actinium

[Nesrine]

My husband was advised to use lutiteum 177 and then his oncologist told him it wont do him any progress and he advised him to use actinium.

Now I am confused. Both wont be covered by the insurance. And as you know these treatments are with thousand of dollars.

So I hv to be careful. Should we start with litetium first although the oncologist said we wont benefit? Or should we go with actinium directly? And how about the side effects of both?

[NPfisherman]

Sorry this answer is so late... I just got here...

You should get a GA68 PSMA scan to measure SUV... the amount of PSMA uptake... This will give you some indication of the efficacy of Lu-177 treatment...

In Germany, they are doing a combo treatment of Lu-177 and AC-225 that has less of the salivary gland toxicity from just Lu-177...There are some tips to dealing with the salivary gland toxicity below:

healthimaging.com/topics/mo...

Best of luck...

Don Pescado