

Declan Murphy
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@declangmurphy
Urologist & Director of GU Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | Professor, University of Melbourne | Podcasting at GU Cast. Views my own. RT = endorsement



First images from the GE Omni 128 cm Total Body PET/CT 🚀 The new scanner detected a <5 mm local recurrence of prostate cancer missed by standard PSMA PET/CT - despite 79% shorter acquisition ⏱️ Delayed imaging boosted lesion uptake and informed dose-painted salvage RT 🎯 @JournalofNucMed @PeterMacCC @declangmurphy @_ShankarSiva jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/…























Thrilled to share #PRIMARY2 Trial Results. This is the first randomised trial to show that adding [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET-CT to MRI can safely halve the number of men needing a prostate biopsy. Hot off the press in @TheLancetOncol 🎉 In 660 men across Australian sites with PI-RADS 2-3 but high clinical risk, PSMA-PET: - Avoided biopsy in nearly half (49%) - Was non-inferior for detecting clinically significant cancer (12% vs 16%) - Halved the overdiagnosis of insignificant cancer (32% to 14%) Fewer biopsies, less overdiagnosis, whilst not missing clinically significant prostate cancer: a real step forward for the diagnostic pathway. Enormous congratulations to @ButeauJames @PeterMacCC , who led this as the centrepiece of his PhD and presented it as a plenary at #EAU26 in London. And to my brilliant co-lead @drlouiseemmett - this was a true partnership across our two centres. Thank you to the UROLOGISTS @DrDanielMoon @declangmurphy (& many others), nuclear medicine physicians, technologists, radiopharmaceutical scientists across every site, and to @AnnetteVDHeyden and the @pros_tic who held it all together. We are grateful to our funders: @PCF_Science, @nhmrc, St Vincent's Curran Foundation, Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation, and @ANZUPtrials Most of all, thank you to the 660 men who took part. Open Access article: thelancet.com/journals/lanon…
















