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PSA & PET Features to Select sLND Persons in Recurrent PCa
Article: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/psa-pet-features-to-select-slnd-persons-in-recurrent-pca For a study, researchers sought to assess the association between pre-operative PSA value, 68Ga-prostate-specific-membrane-antigen (PSMA) PET performance, and oncologic results following salvage lymph node
PET/CT Scans and Lymphoma
Article: https://lymphoma-action.org.uk/about-lymphoma-tests-diagnosis-and-staging/petct-scan A PET/CT scan is where you have both a CT scan and a PET scan in the same appointment. A PET/CT scan can help give a clearer
Nearly 30% of US Cancer Deaths Linked to Smoking
Article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/979929?reg=1&icd=ssl_login_success_221019 Nearly 123,000 cancer deaths – or almost 30% of all cancer deaths – in the United States in 2019 were linked to cigarette smoking,
New Prostate Cancer Drug Canada
Article: https://globalnews.ca/news/9178252/new-prostate-cancer-drug-canada/ ‘Very exciting treatment’: New advanced prostate cancer drug available in Canada WATCH: For patients with advanced metastatic prostate cancer, there have been few treatment
Health Canada Approves Illuccix® for Prostate Cancer Imaging
Article: https://telixpharma.com/news-views/health-canada-approves-illuccix-for-prostate-cancer-imaging/ Health Canada Approves Illuccix® for Prostate Cancer Imaging Telix announces that Health Canada has approved Illuccix® [kit for the preparation of gallium (68Ga) gozetotide
PET reveals visual brain pattern of long COVID
A PET study in 143 individuals has identified the metabolic fingerprint of long COVID in the brain, involving decreased activity in the olfactory and limbic areas, and the pons and cerebellum.
