JOURNAL of
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

The factors determining positive detection rate of 68Ga PSMA PET/CT in patients with early biochemical recurrence prostate cancer
Received Date : 10 Jul 2019
Accepted Date : 16 Oct 2019
Available Online : 24 Oct 2019
Doi: 10.1016/j.jons.2019.10.001 - Article's Language: EN
J Oncol Sci 5 (2019) 100-104
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
ABSTRACT
Aim: To examine predictive markers for high detection rates of 68Ga PSMA-PET/CT in biochemical recurrence (BR) prostate cancer (PCa) patients with low PSA levels. Material and Method: This trial was planned as a retrospective single center study. Patients with BR prostat cancer were included. PSA levels of all patients were lower 2 mg/l. Results: Totally thirty-two men patients with BR PCa were included in this study. 18 (56.3%) patients underwent radical prostatectomy and 14 (43.7%) patients curative intense radiotherapy. The number of patients received adjuvant maximal androgen blokage (MAB) treatment was 15 (46.9%). Median PSA levels was calculated 1.03 mg/l 17 (53.1%) of patients had <1 mg/l PSA levels and 7 (21.8%) of patients <0.5 mg/l. The patients number was 16 in unfavorable intermediate risk group (50.0%), 12 (37.5%) in high group and 4 (12.5%) in very high group. The median PSA doubling time was 6.2 months. The number of patients received adjuvant MAB treatment was 15 and in 14 (93.3%) of patients were found positive lesion in 68Ga PSMA-PET/CT. The number of patients with at least one lesion detected on 68Ga PSMAPET/ CT was 19 (59.4%). In univariate analysis to detect the factors affecting 68Ga PSMA-PET/CT positivity, there was only the presence of adjuvant MAB treatment as statistically significant importance (p < 0.001) and in multivariate analysis, the presence of adjuvant MAB treatment was found to be as statistically significant factor in terms of affecting 68Ga PSMA-PET/CT positivity (p ¼ 0.003). The cut-off value was calculated as 1.12 mg/l in patients with no adjuvant MAB treatment (sensitivity 80% and specificity 83.3%). Conclusion: Clinicians may perform 68Ga PSMA PET/CT in low PSA levels to detect lesions in biochemical recurrent prostate cancer patients who had received MAB treatment and in patients with higher PSA levels who had no received MAB treatment.
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