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Better way to image metastatic prostate cancer

January 28, 2016

Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical Schools performed a systematic evaluation of prostate cancer imaging techniques. Their analysis revealed that PET/CT scans using a radiotracer that targets prostate-specific membrane antigen was the most effective at detecting metastatic prostate cancer when compared with other imaging techniques. Read more from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.