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How long did you wait for PSMA scan?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 24 2:44pm | Replies (31)

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@prh59

I totally can relate to the sense of urgency one has when needing to schedule the pet PSMA. My local facility also required two month wait. I ended up getting an appointment in another city (two hour drive away) that had availability with just a two week wait.
Thankfully, my PSMA result showed no involvement in bone lymph nodes, etc., however, one thing I would share is that my radiation oncologist required me to also get an MRI study done. She stated that the PET PMSA can miss about 5% of tumors. I followed her recommendation and unfortunately the MRI did show a very small tumor (that the PSMA study did not reveal). You may want to ask your provider about having an MRI in addition to the pet scan. (this said they may want to see your pet PSMA result first). Best of luck for good news!!!

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Thanks so much for sharing your case and for the advice.
Was you MRI just regular MRI or PSMA MRI. As far as I can understand reading around for the past 7 days there is PSMA MRI and PSMA PET CT and both are preferably done. I tried to get answers from our urologist regarding imaging techniques but he dismissed my question completely with answer that it is all the same just different modalities blah blah. IT IS NOT. I hate that I now on top of everything have to "study" radiology instead of concentrating on spending time with my husband or on researching about supplements and other complementary things. But it is OK. One step at a time ...