What is a sodium fluoride PET scan?

Sodium fluoride PET has higher sensitivity and specificity in detecting and diagnosing bone diseases compared with conventional bone scintigraphy, even when the latter is supplemented with SPECT or SPECT/CT imaging 2. The primary clinical use of sodium fluoride PET is in detection of osseous prostate cancer metastasis.

What is a PSMA PET scan?

A prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scan is a new type of nuclear medicine procedure for men with prostate cancer.

What is Axumin scan?

Axumin® (fluciclovine F 18) is an advanced diagnostic imaging agent, or radiotracer, that’s used with a positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scan for men who have had prior treatment for prostate cancer and now have elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels.

Which is better bone scan or PET scan?

The sensitivity,specificity and accuracy of bone scan were slightly higher than those of PET/CT but there was no statistically significant difference between PET/CT and bone scan(P=0.4).

What is osseous metastasis?

Overview. Bone metastasis occurs when cancer cells spread from their original site to a bone. Nearly all types of cancer can spread (metastasize) to the bones. But some types of cancer are particularly likely to spread to bone, including breast cancer and prostate cancer.

What is the cost of PSMA PET scan?

So looking at the results, the cost per scan, just straight-up cost, $1,140 for the PSMA PET scan as we just discussed, whereas conventional imaging cost $1,181. If you adopted a societal perspective, including delivery time, the cost per scan favored PSMA PET at $1,203 compared to $1,412 for conventional imaging.

What is the difference between a PSMA scan and a PET scan?

PSMA-PET scan: PET scans use a radioactive dye to light up specific regions in the body. PSMA-PET scans look for areas of the body where the PSMA protein is found, showing the presence of prostate cancer cells. PSMA stands for prostate specific membrane antigen – a protein found on the surface of prostate cancer cells.

What is the difference between a PET scan and a Axumin PET scan?

Contrary to FDG PET (which is performed with empty bladder), Axumin PET is performed with full bladder as full bladder will decrease the urinary excretion of the contrast and dilute any excreted contrast. Thus, it is recommended to avoid emptying the bladder at least 30 min before the scan.

How accurate is Axumin PET scan?

Dr. Sweriduk: Axumin PET CT is less sensitive for recurrent tumor detection in patients with a PSA level below 2ng/ml. If the PSA is above 2ng/ml, the detection rate of tumor recurrence is 91.7%. If the PSA is less than 1, the detection rate is 37.5%.

Can PET scan detect metastasis?

CONCLUSIONS: PET scanning is extremely sensitive (94.2%) and very specific (83.3%) for identifying metastatic melanoma, particularly in soft tissues, lymph nodes, and the liver. A number of second primary or metastatic tumors and an inflammatory response can also be localized by PET.

Does a PET scan show metastasis?

PET/CT is the most useful test for determining the stage of cancer. It is more accurate than any other test in finding local or metastatic tumors. Although PET can’t detect microscopic cells, it can detect clusters of tumor cells that metastasized, or spread, to other tissues or organs.