Tulane Cancer Center Offers Imaging Tool to Detect Recurring Prostate Cancer
Tulane Cancer Center is one of the first in the region to offer the latest PET imaging tool to detect recurring prostate cancer. “Axumin is a synthetic amino acid that is drawn like a magnet to prostate cancer cells,” said Olga P. Molchanova-Cook, M.D., chief of nuclear medicine in the Tulane University School of Medicine Department of Radiology. “The prostate cancer cells absorb the drug, making the cells visible on a PET scan so we can see if and where the cancer is located and how quickly it’s spreading.”
source: Tulane University