Appropriate Use of PSMA PET in Clinical Practice

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Geoffrey B. Johnson, MD, PhD, discusses the appropriate use of PSMA PET in clinical practice. He emphasizes the significance of PSMA PET as an advanced imaging technique for prostate cancer. Dr. Johnson explores the different types of prostate cancer PET radiotracers, including the newly FDA-approved PSMA imaging agent, and compares them to conventional imaging methods such as MRI and CT.
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[@bjhelder]

This would be so much less invasive than a biopsy, why would it not be used for that?

[@robgerety]

you don't get the detail of a pathology report to help predict risk of spread of local tumors.