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Why does PSMA Pet Scan show no evidence of mets? Missing something?
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@chocchip
You frequently don’t get a choice between gallium 68 or pylarify, The place you were being treated uses one or the other. Pylarify (18F-DCFPyL) often provides better image quality and detail than Gallium-68 (Ga-68) PSMA-11 however.
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@jeffmarc Good point. And I don't think it's worth sweating tiny details on these things.
Any type of scan is imperfect — they can never tell us for sure that we're cancer-free — and there's no evidence even that more-sensitive scans like PSMA-PET improve overall survival over CAT, MRI, and/or bone scans.
The best scan is the one you can get soonest and closest to home. The oncologists will combine the result with bloodwork, genetic testing, and other evidence to form a working model of what's actually going on.