PET Scanning For Prostate Cancer If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, there are often many questions left unanswered. A doctor may suggest having a PET scan as part of an overall plan for treatment and monitoring recurrence or progression of the disease. This guide provides insights into the role […]
PET Imaging Institute of South Florida is proud to offer newly available NETSPOT (Gallium 68-Dotatate) scan: A novel PET/CT tracer for the detection of Neuro Endocrine Tumors (NETs) NETSPOT, the new tracer for Gallium 68-Dotatate scan, is the next generation of OCTREOSCAN. It is a form of octreotide, which binds to a receptor on many […]
What is Prostate Cancer? Prostate cancer is a tumor that forms in the tissues of the prostate gland, a urogenital organ found only in males. Normally, a prostate gland is small about the size of a walnut. It’s located deep in the pelvis under the bladder and sits directly in front of the rectum. The […]
Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT)? Positron emission tomography also called a PET/CT scan, is a nuclear medicine exam that produces a three-dimensional image of functional processes in the body. A PET scan uses a small amount of a radioactive drug to show differences between healthy and diseased tissue. The diagnostic images produced by PET are […]
PET/CT changes patient management approximately two-thirds of the time Useful for diagnosis, staging, monitoring treatment effectiveness, restaging, guiding biopsies/surgery/radiation, following for recurrence Diagnosis at early stages: based on metabolic characteristics of a tumor as well as anatomical data, therefore, detection of disease is often possible sooner than with strictly anatomical exams. Allows physicians to characterize […]