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Jeremie Calais, MD, on development of a prostate cancer imaging reporting template
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Key Takeaways
- The template integrates miTNM, PROMISE, PRIMARY, RECIP, PSMA-RADS, and E-PSMA criteria for comprehensive PSMA PET/CT reporting.
- It includes prostate cancer history, scan indications, staging, PSMA expression, and technical parameters for thorough documentation.
“It encompasses and contains the miTNM, PROMISE, PRIMARY, RECIP, PSMA-RADS, and E-PSMA concept and criteria all together,” says Jeremie Calais, MD, PhD.
In this video, Jeremie Calais, MD, PhD, highlights the development process for the report, “Standardized template for clinical reporting of PSMA PET/CT scans.” Calais is a nuclear medicine physician at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Video Transcript:
We had medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, nuclear medicine physician that are experts in their domain. They sat together, review what was available in the literature. We looked at all the guidelines, the guidelines from, for example, ASCO guidelines, ENM, SNMMI, NCCN, RADAR, AUA, ASTRO. So, all the main guidelines from Europe and North America, and we summarized them in the table. Then we look at the specific PSMA-PET criteria that were published out there. So, it's mostly PROMISE criteria, PSMA-RADs criteria, ePSMA, PRIMARY. These are the main attempts to classify PSMA-PET/CT reading in a standardized manner.
So, we summarized all that we discussed, and we came up with a template. It's kind of a to-do list. We check boxes to make sure that everybody talks the same language, put the information at the same place and do not forget relevant information. I don't think it has to be followed religiously, but specifically, when you do high volume of PSMA-PET scan or if you're learning and you're new to that technique, it's a great help to make sure you don't forget anything. So, you have these templates that you can use to help you to refine you PSMA-PET/CT reading. I hope that the community will use it. We find it of interest. It's just an attempt; it's just a draft. Maybe over time, we'll get some feedbacks, and we can improve it with new data coming in, new findings that can improve and refine such templates.
This transcript was AI generated and edited by human editors for clarity.
