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There was an area that the oncologist were uncertain about. Was it cancer or not. The...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1116341/

Discussion: Can you use Lupron to postpone PSMA?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 2, 2024

PSMA doesn’t show anything. That is the problem. Have undergone two of them. The Axumin is...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1231377/

Discussion: Gleason 4+5, up from 4+3

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 7 8:57am

PSMA PET scans regularly out-perform older scans (like F18-Fluciclovine, C11 Choline, F18-NaF, and F18-FDG). However, there...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1087128/

Discussion: PSMA scan

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jun 15, 2024

Usually, the PSMA PET scan is the best scan to use to detect prostate cancer recurrence/spread....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1251521/

Discussion: Recent PSMA PET does not detect cancer, what’s next?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 6 7:20am

Just like with most every other test/scan for prostate cancer - PSA, MRI (PIRADS), biopsy (Gleason),...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1304421/

Discussion: What are the chances that this is just a PSA bounce?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 15 4:54am

You have likely already read these, but here are links to two studies involving PSMA PET/CT...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1266921/

Discussion: What imaging studies you had and what contrast agent was used?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 25 11:09pm

You could be one of the people that does not produce much PSMA. Without producing PSMA...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1207565/

Discussion: Did you choose active surveillance? Why was it a good choice?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Jan 9 10:51am

CT of the pelvis, or a PET/CT PSMA scan can show the calcifications that interfere (plus...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/908032/

Discussion: Results after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Aug 5, 2023

This is where things get more complicated. About 15% of prostate cancers do not express PSMA...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1264780/

Discussion: PSA levels started to rise again but negative PSMA PET

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 23 10:18am

I would argue that a PSMA PET scan is your most important. It will definitively (or...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1312821/

Discussion: What side effects, if any, did you have with Cyberknife?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 25 6:30pm

Jporter. Was it a PSMA-PET?

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1277907/

Discussion: Lifting weights while on ADT: hitting a wall?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 9 12:52pm

A choline C-11 PET can find active cancer that is not expressing PSMA and that would...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1048576/

Discussion: Prostate cancer recurrence: RT advised concerned about quality of life

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 10, 2024

It’s not whack-a-mole. Now that they know where the cancers are, they can attack them. “If...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1325840/

Discussion: PSMA PET results 6/6/25

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: 5 days ago

Probably too far to be of use to you, but here is a link to a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1262078/

Discussion: How long did you wait for PSMA scan?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Mar 19 3:37pm

Orgovyx can confuse the PSMA/PET. You might talk to the radiologist. I was told that this...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1174387/

Discussion: Anyone stopped Orgovyx and started again if PSA rises?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Nov 16, 2024

Yes, when prostate cancers produce PSMA, then PSMA PET scans soundly out-perform older scans (like F18-Fluciclovine,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1244829/

Discussion: Low PSA, MRI shows likely cancer

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Feb 24 5:08pm

A research team in Australia recently conducted a test to see if the PSMA was the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/865635/

Discussion: Questions about MRI report

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: May 24, 2023

Have you considered a PSMA PET/CT Pylarity https://www.onclive.com/view/fda-approves-piflufolastat-f-18-psma-pet-imaging-agent-for-prostate-cancer

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/949866/

Discussion: Continue PSA surveillance or have a Prostate MRI?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 18, 2023

PSMA October 2024 low level of tracer para-aortic LN SUV 5; subsequent PSMA March 2025 after...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1285407/

Discussion: What do you do when one lymph node on PSMA is inconclusive ?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Apr 19 11:49am

Pre-RP CT and bone scan was back up if PSMA was rejected. Insurance did ultimately allow...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/765758/

Discussion: Did you get a PET scan prior to radical prostatectomy?

Support Group: Prostate Cancer

Posted: Oct 26, 2022

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