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ReviewJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2026

Pivotal Phase 3 Theranostic Trials: Future Indications.

Wolfgang P Fendler, Michael S Hofman, David Kersting, Jeremie Calais, Thomas A Hope

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Review in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Wolfgang P FendlerGerman Cancer Consortium, Partner Site University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; wolfgang.fendler@uk-essen.de.
Michael S HofmanProstate Cancer Theranostics and Imaging Centre of Excellence, Molecular Imaging and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
David KerstingGerman Cancer Consortium, Partner Site University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Jeremie CalaisUCLA, Los Angeles, California.
Thomas A HopeDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and.

Funding

MELT: Modulation of PSMA Expression for Lutetium TherapyR01CA235741 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HOPE, THOMAS A · 2019 to 2025
$3.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA235741
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are several ongoing phase 3 randomized trials involving radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs), which are expected to provide practice-changing evidence in the coming years. This review covers ongoing pivotal phase 3 trials designed to expand applications for RPTs. Trials such as PSMAcTION, STAMPEDE2, PSMA-DC, and PSMAddition focus on prostate-specific membrane antigen-directed treatments for patients with prostate cancer. NETTER-3, ACTION-1, and COMPOSE evaluate somatostatin receptor-targeted radiopharmaceuticals in individuals with neuroendocrine neoplasms. Expansion of phase 3 registration trials has been driven by increased industry investment. Ongoing RPT phase 3 trials serve as hybrids, merging nuclear medicine procedures for imaging and drug application with oncology-driven standards of care and endpoint definitions. Despite the challenges associated with this integration, phase 3 RPT trials present an opportunity to revolutionize future cancer care by introducing and expanding the use of image-guided RPT.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials, Phase III as TopicTheranostic NanomedicineHumansMaleNeuroendocrine TumorsProstatic NeoplasmsRadiopharmaceuticalsRadiopharmaceuticalsclinical trialphase 3prospectivetheranostic

Identifiers

PMID42728102
PMCPMC13544196

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