Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD, presented “PSMA PET for Prostate Cancer: Primary Staging, Recurrent Disease Localization” during the 2023 Frontiers in Oncologic Prostate Care and Ablative Local Therapy symposium on November 10, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois.

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How to cite: Rowe, Steven P. “PSMA PET for Prostate Cancer: Primary Staging, Recurrent Disease Localization.” November, 2023. Accessed Dec 2024. https://grandroundsinurology.com/psma-pet-for-prostate-cancer-primary-staging-recurrent-disease-localization/

PSMA PET for Prostate Cancer: Primary Staging, Recurrent Disease Localization – Summary

Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD, discusses the strengths of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) PET in PCa staging and localization. Dr. Rowe begins with a brief overview of PSMA PET and its correlation with metastases and tumor aggressiveness.

Dr. Rowe focuses on the sensitivity and specificity of PSMA PET for identifying metastases. He establishes that PSMA PET has high specificity, regardless of metastatic tumor size, but that the sensitivity to tumors below 5 millimeters in diameter is low. For treatment of the primary disease in the prostate, Dr. Rowe discusses the role of PSMA PET in tumor segmentation.

Dr. Rowe concludes by addressing the use of PSMA PET in identifying recurrent disease and salvage therapy candidates. He discusses the design and results of the CONDOR trial, and the lesion-level positive predictive value of PSMA PET in recurrent disease.

Frontiers in Oncologic Prostate Care and Ablative Local Therapy (FOCAL) is an outstanding program on prostate imaging, transperineal interventions, and ablative treatments for prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Bringing together community-based, academic, and industry partners, FOCAL offers lectures by world-renowned faculty and hands-on training workshops on in-office transperineal interventions, fusion-guided prostate ablation and state-of-the-art BPH management with novel technologies. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Steven P. Rowe, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He clinically practices both diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, and his research work focuses on applications of novel molecular imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). He is particularly interested in the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted PET agents in prostate cancer and renal cell carcinoma, as well as the clinical utilization of 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT for non-invasive characterization of renal masses. He and his colleagues recently developed and validated a structured reporting system for delineating and codifying findings on PSMA PET known as PSMA Reporting and Data System (PSMA-RADS).