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ABSTRACT: Purpose
We prospectively evaluated the diagnostic performance of prostate specific membrane antigen targeted 18F-DCFPyL positron emission tomography/computerized tomography in the preoperative staging of men at high risk for harboring metastatic prostate cancer despite a negative conventional staging evaluation.Materials and methods
Men with clinically localized high or very high risk prostate cancer were imaged with 18F-DCFPyL positron emission tomography/computerized tomography before undergoing radical prostatectomy with standardized pelvic lymph node dissection. The scans were interpreted by 2 blinded nuclear medicine readers and assessed for interreader variability as well as diagnostic accuracy for pelvic lymph node staging. Surgical pathology served as the reference standard to which 18F-DCFPyL scan findings were compared.Results
A total of 25 men contributed analyzable data to this study. Seven of these patients (28%) were found to have 1 or more positive lymph nodes on surgical pathology. Sites of radiotracer uptake were identified in the prostate of all imaged patients. The 2 readers identified the same number of prostatic lesions in 22 patients (88%), of whom all had at least 1 intraprostatic lesion in common between the 2 reads. Additionally, the readers assigned the same N stage to 46 of 50 individual lymph node packets (92%). Following reconciliation of the relatively few discordant imaging reads, 7 patients (28%) were found to have 1 or more sites of radiotracer uptake in the pelvis consistent with N1 disease, resulting in 71.4% sensitivity (95% CI 29.0-96.3) and 88.9% specificity (95% CI 65.3-98.6). Analysis at the level of individual nodal packets resulted in 66.7% sensitivity (95% CI 29.9-92.5) and 92.7% specificity (95% CI 80.1-98.5). Three men (12%) had evidence of M1a disease.Conclusions
18F-DCFPyL positron emission tomography/computerized tomography allowed for accurate detection of prostate cancer sites in men believed to have clinically localized disease based on conventional imaging. Our results support the need for a larger study to more precisely define the diagnostic accuracy of this novel molecular imaging test.
SUBMITTER: Gorin MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5802365 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gorin Michael A MA Rowe Steven P SP Patel Hiten D HD Vidal Igor I Mana-Ay Margarita M Javadi Mehrbod S MS Solnes Lilja B LB Ross Ashley E AE Schaeffer Edward M EM Bivalacqua Trinity J TJ Partin Alan W AW Pienta Kenneth J KJ Szabo Zsolt Z De Marzo Angelo M AM Pomper Martin G MG Allaf Mohamad E ME
The Journal of urology 20170720 1
<h4>Purpose</h4>We prospectively evaluated the diagnostic performance of prostate specific membrane antigen targeted <sup>18</sup>F-DCFPyL positron emission tomography/computerized tomography in the preoperative staging of men at high risk for harboring metastatic prostate cancer despite a negative conventional staging evaluation.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Men with clinically localized high or very high risk prostate cancer were imaged with <sup>18</sup>F-DCFPyL positron emission tomography/c ...[more]