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Re:New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer by lipman on Monday June 10, 2019 @01:29PM (#20148830)
Good luck with the surgery! You probably got Octreoscan which is used for NET - it's SPECT imaging which is generally worse that PET, but (until now) there wasn't a good PET tracer that works in NET. Awesome to hear a story of how this new tracer could really help patients.
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Re:New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer by orr721 on Monday June 10, 2019 @04:06PM (#20150270)
Sorry, this is not true. 68Ga-labelled DOTATOC, DOTANOC, and DOTATATE are used diagnosis and therapy of NETs for more than 10 years. They are widely available in Europe and in some major US centers. If the new 68Ga-FAPI will be better remains to be seen, I suppose the Heidelberg group will publish some research soon.
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Re:New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer by lipman on Monday June 10, 2019 @10:40PM (#20152670)
I just took him at his word that it was FAPI & was asking if it is available in the US - also I favor PET as a modality b/c it's quantitative. No judgement on a particular tracer.
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Re:New Radiotracer Can Identify Nearly 30 Types of Cancer by Randypea on Monday June 10, 2019 @09:50PM (#20152488)
You are correct it's only in the last several years this Gallium 68 scan has been available in the US, but was available in Europe long before - like many cancer treatments.
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