Can you give Pluvicto with concurrent palliative EBRT?
If so, do you modify your external beam dose?
This question is part of our collaboration with ASTRO to highlight impactful data from the 2026 Multidisciplinary Radiopharmaceutical Symposium. This question is inspired by the Plenary Session Presentation "Clinical Outcomes among Patients Treated with Lu-PSMA-617 and EBRT for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer" by Dr. Mai Anh Huynh
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Radiation Oncology · Corewell Health
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Short answer:
Yes, you can, and I do not modify my dose. I have no issues with this and have done it multiple times for patients who need more immediate symptom relief (pain, bleeding, etc.).
Why? Because Pluvicto is a medium energy isotope with a relatively short path length of around 2 mm. Even nea...
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Radiation Oncology · Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania
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This question requires some context - first, what defines "can you give," and second, what defines concurrent. For the former question, yes, one can do whatever they like by giving EBRT with PSMA therapy, but the real question is whether it is safe to do so. This is an open area of study. There are ...
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