AuntMinnie

JULY 12, 2024

As nuclear medicine therapies gain stature compared to nuclear medicine in diagnostic imaging, hospital administrators may be eyeing the potential of adding theranostics services. A shortage of nuclear medicine technologists means a theranostics center may need to limit its patient volume.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 8, 2024

Theranostics treatments are used with increasing frequency now since the approvals and expansions of Lutathera (lutetium-177 [Lu-177]) DOTATATE, a radiopharmaceutical for neuroendrocrine tumors (NETs) and Pluvicto, Lu-177 PSMA-617, for prostate cancer. Extravasations Extravasations, in particular, are of interest to the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

Nuclear medicine injection extravasations and medical events will be the focus of the Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI)'s public teleconference on June 17. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rulemaking. I hope you won't make that a medical event because that would be ridiculous.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Since 2013 we've had several more radiopharmaceutical therapies get FDA approval.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 20, 2024

Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approvals of radiopharmaceuticals for neuroendocrine tumors and then for prostate cancer, theranostics has picked up momentum in clinical practice, propelled by encouraging research. Since 2013 we've had several more radiopharmaceutical therapies get FDA approval.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Effects of low-dose ionizing radiation on genomic instability in interventional radiology workers. Luthria, et al, Journal of Nuclear Medicine , October 26, 2023. Quantifying Regional Radiation-Induced Lung Injury in Patients Using Hyperpolarized 129Xe Gas Exchange Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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