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Improving PET scans are good news for doctors and patients alike Posted February 03, 2021, 8:54 am Editor, Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases A recent blog post discussed a newly approved imaging agent with an unwieldy name: gallium-68 PMA-11. Delivered in small amounts by injection, this minimally radioactive tracer sticks to prostate cancer cells, which subsequently glow and reveal themselves on a positron emission tomography (PET) scan. Offered to men with rising PSA levels after initial prostate cancer treatment (a condition called biochemical recurrence), thi...

Hormonal therapies for advanced prostate cancer linked to a higher risk of falls and fractures Posted January 07, 2021, 1:44 pm Editor, Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases Falls rank among the top causes of death and injuries among the elderly, and the risk increases significantly in older people being treated for cancer. Now, investigators are reporting that a newer class of drugs for advanced prostate cancer is associated with a significant increase in fall risk. Called androgen receptor inhibitors, or ARIs, these drugs target testosterone, a hormone that acceler...

New high-resolution imaging scans approved for use in prostate cancer Posted December 17, 2020, 4:53 pm Editor, Harvard Medical School Annual Report on Prostate Diseases Imagine trying to find a single match from a book of matches in a large room. Not an easy task, right? But if the lights were dimmed and the match was lit, then its location would be immediately apparent. This is the basic idea behind PSMA imaging, a newly approved method for detecting prostate cancer that is spreading, or metastasizing. The method relies on a minimally radioactive tracer called gallium-68 PSMA-11. Deli...