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PSMA PET highlights need for updated prostate cancer therapy guidelines

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June 14, 2022
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — Current guidelines used to plan salvage radiation treatments in patients with local recurrence of prostate cancer should be updated to take into consideration information derived from novel imaging modalities, such as PSMA PET, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2022 Annual Meeting. The study showed that PSMA PET was effective in identifying recurrences that fell partially or fully outside of the clinical target volume as determined by current guidelines. This suggests that PSMA PET can be an invaluable tool for therapy planning.

Heat maps of PSMA PET prostatic fossa recurrence in patients

Credit: Ida Sonni, Dylan O’Connell, Kathleen Nguyen, Stephanie Yoon, Jie Deng, Clayton Smith, Tristan Grogan, Minsong Cao, Amar Kishan, and Jeremie Calais, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Alan Dal Pra, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Matthias Benz, University of California, Los Angeles, Westwood, California; and Nicholas Nickols, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — Current guidelines used to plan salvage radiation treatments in patients with local recurrence of prostate cancer should be updated to take into consideration information derived from novel imaging modalities, such as PSMA PET, according to research presented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2022 Annual Meeting. The study showed that PSMA PET was effective in identifying recurrences that fell partially or fully outside of the clinical target volume as determined by current guidelines. This suggests that PSMA PET can be an invaluable tool for therapy planning.

After a biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer, salvage radiation therapy can be a curative approach. This therapy conducted following contouring guidelines based on expert consensus, such as the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) guidelines. In today’s era of precision medicine, study authors sought to determine if PSMA PET imaging could provide more detailed data on patterns of recurrence to inform therapy planning.

Prostate cancer patients who experienced biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy were included in the analysis if their PSMA PET/CT imaging showed recurrence in the prostate bed. To analyze the patterns of recurrence, two nuclear medicine physicians documented the areas of recurrence on the PSMA PET/CT, and four radiation oncologists (masked to the PSMA PET/CT findings) delineated the clinical target volume using RTOG guidelines on the CT images of the PET/CT. PSMA recurrence locations were then compared to the RTOG-based clinical target volumes.

PSMA recurrences were fully covered by the clinical target volumes in 54 percent of the patients. In 34 percent of the patients, PSMA recurrence was only partly covered, and in 13 percent of patients the PSMA recurrence was located fully outside of the clinical target volume.

“This study has the potential to redefine prostate bed contouring guidelines to improve the therapeutic ratio for patients receiving postoperative radiotherapy,” said Ida Sonni, MD, project scientist in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging advances, such as PSMA PET, have the ability to guide individualized, tailored treatments that will ultimately benefit all our patients.”

This press release reflects updated results presented at the Annual Meeting.

Abstract 486. “PSMA PET mapping of postoperative local recurrence and impact on prostate fossa contouring guidelines for salvage radiation therapy,” Ida Sonni, Dylan O’Connell, Kathleen Nguyen, Stephanie Yoon, Jie Deng, Clayton Smith, Tristan Grogan, Minsong Cao, Amar Kishan, and Jeremie Calais, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Alan Dal Pra, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Matthias Benz, University of California, Los Angeles, Westwood, California; and Nicholas Nickols, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.

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All 2022 SNMMI Annual Meeting abstracts can be found online.

About the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, vital elements of precision medicine that allow diagnosis and treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.

SNMMI’s members set the standard for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine practice by creating guidelines, sharing information through journals and meetings and leading advocacy on key issues that affect molecular imaging and therapy research and practice. For more information, visit www.snmmi.org.



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PSMA PET mapping of postoperative local recurrence and impact on prostate fossa contouring guidelines for salvage radiation therapy

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14-Jun-2022

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