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Would you recommend biopsy of a bone met noted on PSMA PET after definitive prostate radiation?

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Radiation Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

There is no simple answer to this. The following are some relevant considerations:

  • What was the original risk category? What was the Gleason score?
  • What was the pre-treatment workup? Was there anything noted there previously?
  • Was or is the patient on ADT?
  • Pre-treatment and current PSA values?
  • How l...

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Radiation Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

I presume that the patient was treated for localized prostate cancer. Then had some appropriate interval of decrease in PSA. And now has developed biochemical recurrence (per Phoenix definition) which prompted a PSMA PET/CT. For the basis of argument, I will assume that there is one location that is...

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