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A leading research group from Sydney, Australia, has underlined the importance of dual F-18 FDG and gallium-68 DOTATATE PET scans in the staging and management of neuroendocrine tumors.
The team emphasizes the need to understand the prognostic implications of dual PET scans and the NETPET score and to increase awareness of the treatment implications of discordant disease identified on dual PET imaging. You can find out more in today's top story.
In patients with chronic kidney disease, F-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT can quantitatively assess vascular calcification activity and ongoing osteogenesis, offering a sensitive tool to characterize mineral metabolism abnormalities in this highly vulnerable group.
Workforce issues are of prime importance today in both radiology and nuclear medicine. To shine a light on the subject, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine has published the results of its latest workforce survey. It contains some useful and informative data that highlight some emerging trends. Don't miss our news report.
It's still relatively rare for a European to become editor in chief of a top U.S. medical journal, so Prof. Dr. Ken Herrmann from Essen, Germany, deserves praise for his appointment as editor in chief of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Also making the news this month was a German study that elaborated on a novel treatment option for advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. “These preliminary results may lay the foundation for future studies using molecular imaging-derived biomarkers to identify patients that benefit from the therapy,” the authors noted.
These news stories are just a sample of the extensive material we’ve posted over the last couple of months in the Molecular Imaging Content Area.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
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