May 7, 2013

C-11 acetate PET/CT helps patients before prostatectomy

May 6th, 2013, Wayne Forrest, staff writer for AuntMinnie.com reported on a study published in the May Journal of Nuclear Medicine.  “PET/CT with carbon-11 (C-11) acetate is better at detecting lymph-node metastasis among patients planning for or completing radical prostatectomy than conventional imaging, and it can help predict treatment efficacy and survival.”