- 21. Bad Berka Approach to PRRT
- (Background)
- What sets treatment by Dr. Baum and his team at Bad Berka apart from PRRT offered at other medical centers in Europe is not only a individualized approach to dosimetry and treatment, but also the view ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 22. Centers that offer PRRT
- (PRRT)
- This is a partial list of centers that offer PRRT to patients from North America- Please feel free to contact us to add other centers to the list. As with any medical decision it is advisable to contact ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 23. Who Should Consider PRRT
- (PRRT)
- Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) will not work on all neuroendocrine tumors. For this treatment to work you MUST have somatostatin receptors in your tumors. When a somatostatin analog (like ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 24. PRRT Background and Types
- (PRRT)
- The early efforts at PRRT were done with a form of Indium-111. This form of radiation was found to have a very short radius of action, causing little or no collateral damage to nearby tissue, but was ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 25. How Does PRRT Work
- (PRRT)
- Perhaps the simplest way to explain the workings of PRRT is to think about the analogy of a magnet and its ability to attract iron shavings. Think of a neuroendocrine tumor with somatostatin positive receptors ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 26. What is PRRT?
- (PRRT)
- Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) is a form of molecular targeted therapy which is performed by using a small peptide (a somatostatin analog similar to octreotide) that is coupled with a ...
- Created on 19 July 2010
- 27. Dr. Baum's New Locatio
- (News)
- ... patients who will still need to be treated at ZBB due to special technical requirements (e.g. ALPHA-PRRT, intra-arterial PRRT, treatment with antagonists, etc.). Lab work can be sent by email while Imaging ...
- Created on 12 December 2019
- 28. Understanding Dosimetry
- (Process)
- Dosimetry is used by many centers that preform PRRT. Wikipedia defines Dosimetry as "the measurement of the absorbed dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a scientific sub-specialty ...
- Created on 20 July 2015
- 29. 2014 SNMMI Patient Education Day
- (News)
- For the second year in a row, NorCal CarciNET Community and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held a patient education day during the SNMMI's Annual Meeting. The program took ...
- Created on 18 August 2014
- 30. Updates from the Ga68 Working Group
- (News)
- ... held in St. Louis during the SNMMI Annual Meeting on June 9th, 2014. PRRTInfor.org continues to support the work of the 68Ga Users Group. One of the orginators of this site, Josh Mailman has been a ...
- Created on 18 August 2014
- 31. Update to a Solider Story
- (Bad Berka)
- ... He recommended three options. One was a liver transplant. The second was a multivisceral (multiple) organ transplant. Both were expensive and risky. The third option was most preferable. It was PRRT (Peptide ...
- Created on 26 February 2014
- 32. Becca H
- (Rotterdam)
- PRRT at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (aka Holland), 2013 Dec2013 You and your oncologist have determined that PRRT (Lutetium 177) treatments are the best option for your neuroendocrine ...
- Created on 26 February 2014
- 33. IAEA Guidance on PRRNT for NETs
- (In the News)
- A committee of international experts under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with the EANM Therapy, Oncology and Dosimetry Committees and with the Society of ...
- Created on 29 September 2013
- 34. Presentations from the 2nd World Congress on Ga68
- (In the News)
- ... and posters were presented reflecting the current usage of Ga68 and PRRT around the world as well as new and exciting development that have taken place since the 1st world congress in 2011. The abstracts ...
- Created on 21 July 2013
- 35. One-third of patients unaware of rad exposure with CT, cardiac SPECT
- (In the News)
- ... PRRTinfo.org are working with the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging to provide information for patients on the benifits and risks of nuclear diagnostic and treatment. To learn more about ...
- Created on 03 January 2013
- 36. Susan's Stor
- (Bad Berka)
- My name is Susan, and I was diagnosed with carcinoid in February 2002. Following nearly a decade of treatment in the U.S., I decided to seek PRRT treatment with Dr. Baum in 2011. With the help of Dr. Woltering ...
- Created on 28 January 2012
- 37. One More Thing.. - Steve Jobs Passing
- (In the News)
- Steve Jobs lost his battle with NETs in October 2011, many sites have chronicled his medical care and the various medical treatments he pursued including PRRT. For a detailed look at his medical history ...
- Created on 24 October 2011
- 38. First World Congress of Ga-68 and PRRNT - an Overwhelming Success
- (Conferences)
- ... Latin America as well. Poland currently has 9 centers that treat patients with PRRT. Third - the idea Theranostics - using the same tools to diagnose as you do treatment is very powerful concept. ...
- Created on 08 September 2011
- 39. Steve Jobs resigns from Apple
- (In the News)
- Aug 24, 2011 - Steve Jobs - Apple's CEO resigned today saying he "could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO'. Mr. Jobs has been battling pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer since 2004 ...
- Created on 25 August 2011
- 40. CCAN NET Cancer Patients Conference Long Island
- (Past Conferences )
- ... day starting with an introduction to NETs, methods of detection as common ways to treat - with talks throughout the day on interventional radiology, surgery, blood markers, imaging and PRRT. As this ...
- Created on 20 August 2011