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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2024

Treatment response assessment in mCRPC: is PSMA-PET/CT going to take the lead?

Martina Di Franco, Riccardo Mei, Camilo Garcia, Stefano Fanti

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Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. FDG/PSMA discordance in [Frontiers in oncology · 2026
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  3. Review
  4. The Role of Nuclear Medicine in Prostate Cancer.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Martina Di FrancoNuclear Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Via Massarenti 9, Bologna 40138, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1729-9438
Riccardo MeiNuclear Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
Camilo GarciaDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Gustave Roussy, Paris Saclay University, Villejuif, France.
Stefano FantiNuclear Medicine, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The assessment of response to therapy in prostate cancer (PCa) patients is an ongoing, open issue. Prostate-specific antigen has limitations, especially in advanced metastatic PCa, which often displays intratumor variability in terms of response to therapy. Conventional imaging (i.e. computerized tomography and bone scan) is of limited use for its low sensitivity and specificity. Positron-emission tomography (PET) with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) demonstrated higher sensitivity and specificity, and novel PSMA-based criteria have been recently proposed for treatment response, with promising results in different scenarios, from chemotherapy to radioligand therapy. PSMA-based criteria have been found to outperform the current RECIST 1.1 and Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 frameworks in describing the behavior of PCa, precisely assessing tumor phenotypes through molecular-imaging-derived parameters. This review critically explores the current evidence about the role of PSMA PET/computed tomography in the assessment of treatment response.

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biomarkersdiagnosisimagingimaging biomarkersPET guided treatmentprostate cancerPSMA PET imagingtheranostics

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PMID39386313
PMCPMC11462558

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