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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 7 10:51am | Replies (7)

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@robertmizek

The way I understand it the PETPSMA scan combined with PSA test results give indicators of what’s going on with metastatic cancer. Unfortunately, you can have rising PSA (small values) and not see any new sites on a scan.
Thankfully, technicians are getting better at reading these scans and interpreting them and should be able to weigh in with some helpful information when comparing a current scan and a prior scan.

Good luck to you on your journey.

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Just some info. Technicians perform the scans; they don't interpret them. Radiologists (M.D.s who specialize in interpreting Imaging studies-MRI, CT, PET, US, plain x-rays, etc) interpret the PET scans. At some institutions other physicians trained in Nuclear Medicine also interpret PET scans.