Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
It’s widely accepted that unfilled vacancies and notable disparities in career advancement persist across Europe in radiology, but these issues also appear to be widespread in nuclear medicine.
The European Association of Nuclear Medicine has published its latest workforce survey, and it contains some useful and informative data that highlight emerging trends. Learn more in our special report.
As a direct result of radiology’s workforce crisis, expenditure on teleradiology has grown sharply in many countries over the past decade. Our regular columnist Dr. Paul McCoubrie has tackled this subject in his latest column.
In other news, a top Australian research group has emphasized the importance of dual F-18 FDG and gallium-68 DOTATATE PET scans in the staging and management of neuroendocrine tumors. The authors are convinced there’s an urgent need to understand the prognostic implications of dual PET scans and the NETPET score and to boost awareness of the treatment implications of discordant disease identified on dual PET imaging.
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.
Finally, another study that caught our attention this week found that transition zone prostate-specific antigen (PSA) density outperforms conventional PSA density as a risk-stratification metric in detecting prostate cancer in patients with negative prebiopsy MRI findings.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com