Besides skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men, according to the American Cancer Society. Recurrences of prostate cancer after a patient undergoes radical prostatectomy (RP), an operation to remove the prostate gland and tissues surrounding it, is a current research topic. Innovative interdisciplinary research comes from collaboration between multiple departments. Recently, scientists from the UC San Francisco Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Urology and Radiation Oncology came together to identify locations of prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP) with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) <2 by Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-11 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging (68Ga-PSMA-11 PET).
This retrospective review of patients with PSMA-PET imaging looked at 125 patients following RP with…
