A recent article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reports findings of a multi-center retrospective study that compares bone scan with PSMA PET for initial staging of prostate cancer. Authors include UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging faculty members Thomas Hope, MD, Roxanna Juarez, MD, Miguel Hernandez Pampaloni, MD, PhD, and clinical research coordinator Daniel Thompson. Co-authors are Matthias Benz, Martin Allen-Auerbach, Pawan Gupta, and senior author Jeremie Calais of UCLA; Fei Jiang of UCSF Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and Francesco Barbato and Wolfgang P. Fendler of the University of Duisburg–Essen.
Titled “Do Bone Scans Overstage Disease Compared with PSMA PET at Initial Staging? An International Multicenter Retrospective Study with Masked Independent Readers,” the purpose of the study was to improve our understanding of how to apply clinical trial data…
