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1. Understanding Dosimetry
(Process)
Dosimetry may be used by centers that preform PRLT. Wikipedia defines Dosimetry as "the measurement of the absorbed dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a scientific sub-specialty ...
Created on 20 July 2015
2. Pre Second World GA68 Congress Publication
(Conferences)
... PET/CT Imaging Predict the Radiation Dose delivered to the Metastatic Liver NET Lesions on 177Lu-DOTATATE Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy?   Baljinder Singh, Vikas Prasad, Christiane Schuchardt, ...
Created on 11 February 2013
3. One-third of patients unaware of rad exposure with CT, cardiac SPECT
(In the News)
Patient knowledge and understanding of radiation from diagnostic imaging is lacking, according to a research letter published online Dec. 31, 2012, in JAMA Internal Medicine . More than half of patients ...
Created on 03 January 2013
4. FAQs
(FAQs)
... limit to the amount of radiation their body can absorb during their lifetime, so the number of treatment cycles will be constrained by this factor as well. As of 2011 the maximum number of cycles that ...
Created on 13 April 2011
5. At the Clinic in Pictures
(At the Clinic)
... PRLT will become quite familiar with the Nuclear Medicine Ward. This Ward is located on the Third Floor of the main building and we are told that the walls of the Ward are lead lined because of the radiation ...
Created on 13 April 2011
6. Risks and Side Effects of PRLT
(PRLT)
...  Disseminated metastases Previous irradiation of spine or pelvis Concurrent chemotherapy – allow 6 wk before PRLT Getting Ra-223 therapy – allow 2-3 months before PRLT Other risk factors to ...
Created on 16 March 2011
7. Going Home
(Post Treatment)
... day for several days following discharge and while traveling. This is done to help the kidneys flush any radiation from the body. The best thing a patient can do is to plan ahead and have some medications ...
Created on 21 January 2011
8. Clothing To Take
(Prior to hospital stay)
... home with you. At the end of the treatment all clothing/worn items will be scanned with an instrument used to determine radiation levels. If radiation is found to be above a certain level, then some articles ...
Created on 21 January 2011
9. Tests and Scans at the Zentralklinik
(In Clinic Tests)
... the first tests/scans to be done on a patient because the function of the kidneys is essential to the PRLT process. The kidneys are key to ridding the body of the radiation that is administered with the ...
Created on 20 January 2011
10. Bad Berka Approach to PRLT
(Background)
... that patients should be administered with lower amounts of radioactivity at more frequent and prolonged intervals (3-6 months in between therapies), rather than given a high dose of radiation at shorter ...
Created on 20 January 2011
11. About this site
(Uncategorised)
... his status.   Gary was diagnosed in the fall of 2013 with prostate cancer (Gleason 3+4). Treated in December 2013 and January 2014 with 35 beam radiation cycles. Also had concurrent treatment with Xoladex.  ...
Created on 20 January 2011
12. What To Expect When Accompanying A Patient
(Care Giver )
... can go to the front door of the Ward and be seen there. After 48 hours, a staff member will scan the patient to check the radiation level. If it is at an approved level, then the patient can go outside ...
Created on 19 July 2010
13. What is PRLT?
(PRLT)
PSMA-targeted Radioligand Therapy (PRLT) is a form of molecular targeted therapy that is performed by using the prostate-specific membrane antigen coupled with a radionuclide emitting beta radiation. In ...
Created on 19 July 2010
14. FLUSH POOP PRRT - Patient Story - Basel
(Patient Stories)
... directed SIR Spheres, which had been recommended to me, because one SIR Sphere treatment has four times the amount of radiation as one Lutetium 177 PRRT treatment. The more radiation a patient has the ...
Created on 19 April 2016
15. New Articles On PRRT
(In the News)
... Kidd & Irvin M. Modlin 90Y Radioembolization After Radiation Exposure from Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy.90Y Radioembolization After Radiation Exposure from Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy. ...
Created on 18 August 2014
16. Update to a Solider Story
(Bad Berka)
... the radioactive material it is absorbed into the tumor by the receptor. The localized radiation then begins killing the tumor cells. PRRT was the obvious best choice and the leading PRRT testing and trial ...
Created on 26 February 2014
17. CCAN NET Cancer Patients Conference Long Island
(Past Conferences )
CCAN's annual conference was held in Long Island, New York on August 20th 2011.  The theme of the day long conference was "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis Treatment and Monitoring of NETs." ...
Created on 20 August 2011
18. Roger J.
(Bad Berka)
A Patient Story – Roger J.   I watched the tear rise in my wife's eyes as the door to the double foyer closed and see watched me walk into the PRRT radiation ward. She wanted to spend the morning in ...
Created on 13 June 2011
19. Jim M.
(Bad Berka)
... of Valium I was taking combined with the anti-nausea drug had me a little tipsy. So, I elected to use a wheelchair. Upon entering the customs hall in Charlotte, the radiation I was emitting triggered ...
Created on 22 April 2011
20. Flora
(Bad Berka)
... chemical formula. The targeting device was the octreotide, the very medication which attaches to receptors on the cancer cells to turn them off to control symptoms. The weapon was radiation provided by ...
Created on 18 April 2011