Guest Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Had a meeting with Patrick Bowden (rad onc Epworth Melbourne) after MRI due to rising PSA. Result negative, but he offered a PSMA PET scan at Peter Mac in about a month. Hoping this will find the problem. It is a full body scan and shows metabolic activity as against structural change. This is very new and has only been available in Melbourne for 3 weeks as of late Sept 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Buttfield Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 The GALLIUM68 PSMA PET/CT is also available in Brisbane at the Wesley (Wesley Medical Imaging), but not covered by medicare so cost is $600.00. My information is that it performs best if PSA is greater than 5.0. Royal Brisbane also has a gallium generator, but can only be accessed by those who qualify for medical trials. (what those trials are I don't know.) The PA hospital is commencing a trial for staging localised men at diagnoses. Also Qld Xray is intending to offer the gallium scan at the Mater private hospital in the near future [geoffb has now had a GALLIUM68 PSMA PET/CT and talks about his results in this post ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonymax Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Think my med oncol mentioned PSMA PET being avail in Sydney. Will check with him at my next appt mid Nov. Tony M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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