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Posted 25 Jun 2016 at 14:29

Hello,

Just joined this group.  I had an initial PSMA PET Scan in November 2015.  I am waiting for a second follow scan that has been delayed due to shortages of the pharmaceutical required for the scan.

I would be grateful if anyone could send me details of any clinics (inside or outside of the UK) that are currently offering these scans.

Cheers, Tony

User
Posted 25 Jun 2016 at 14:50

PET scans it seems are not readily offered. I had my C11 CholinePET scan at Oxford Churchill hospital by the NHS and have been offered a second one before year end. I asked if it could be. PSMA but was told that it is still a trial and not available to me. I think a member on this site flew to Munich to get the superior PSMA scan. The Choline tracer is also very hard to come by and my scan was cancelled twice. It is hard to produce , and then has to be driven to the hospital. It has very short radioactive half-life , so it's difficult to get everything right.

User
Posted 25 Jun 2016 at 18:09
Hi

I had my PSMA scan in Munich http://www.mri.tum.de/node/555.

Hope it helps

Roy

User
Posted 25 Jun 2016 at 20:15

Hi amx
I thought you could only get the PSMA in two hospitals in Germany and a private clinic in London so things must be moving on. If the tracer for PSMA is in short supply, might you meet the criteria for the FACBC trial? John was offered it before it got started but then when the criteria were published he didn't meet the threshold. It is available to men with relapsed PCa after radical treatment so if that's you, worth asking perhaps?

Edited to add the link for FACBC trial but shocking to read towards the end that 35% of men go on to have a recurrence at some point after radical treatment :-0

http://www.blueearthdiagnostics.com/blue-earth-diagnostics-begins-fluciclovine-18f-studies-in-recurrent-prostate-cancer-patients/

Edited by member 25 Jun 2016 at 20:47  | Reason: Not specified

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User
Posted 22 Dec 2017 at 21:41

http://www.prostatakrebse.de/informationen/pdf/PSMA-Kliniken.pdf

In Germany you can have a PSMA-PET/CT in every larger clinic with department of nuclear medicine. It becomes very popular in the last 3 years.

User
Posted 23 Dec 2017 at 04:08

The 68 Gallium scan will set you back circa £2,700 in Munich, or UCLH in London quoted at £2,200 when I asked quite recently. The figure quoted by the Royal Marsden was £3,700. Am advised this scan is available in Melbourne Australia for circa 800 Australian Dollars, some other towns there slightly more and others a little less. So for what you would have to pay in Europe for this scan you could pay your flights to OZ, have the scan and a short holiday!.

Australia and New Zealand seem to be quite fortunate as the tracer for the 18F DCFPyL scan developed at John Hopkins in the US is being manufactured locally for distribution. (In a small study it showed all the mets seen in a group of patients using the 68 Gallium scan, plus some additional mets in some cases in the same group).  I have not as yet found out the cost there for this particular scan. http://www.cyclotek.com/prostate-tracers-18fdcfpyl-and-68gapsma-hbed-cc-comparison/

 

 

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Barry
 
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