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1. FLUSH POOP PRRT - Patient Story - Basel
(Patient Stories)
... directed SIR Spheres, which had been recommended to me, because one SIR Sphere treatment has four times the amount of radiation as one Lutetium 177 PRRT treatment. The more radiation a patient has the ...
Created on 19 April 2016
2. 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
3. New Articles On PRRT
(In the News)
... Kidd & Irvin M. Modlin 90Y Radioembolization After Radiation Exposure from Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy.90Y Radioembolization After Radiation Exposure from Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy. ...
Created on 18 August 2014
4. Update to a Solider Story
(Bad Berka)
... the radioactive material it is absorbed into the tumor by the receptor. The localized radiation then begins killing the tumor cells. PRRT was the obvious best choice and the leading PRRT testing and trial ...
Created on 26 February 2014
5. Pre Second World GA68 Congress Publication
(Conferences)
... PET/CT Imaging Predict the Radiation Dose delivered to the Metastatic Liver NET Lesions on 177Lu-DOTATATE Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy?   Baljinder Singh, Vikas Prasad, Christiane Schuchardt, ...
Created on 11 February 2013
6. One-third of patients unaware of rad exposure with CT, cardiac SPECT
(In the News)
Patient knowledge and understanding of radiation from diagnostic imaging is lacking, according to a research letter published online Dec. 31, 2012, in JAMA Internal Medicine . More than half of patients ...
Created on 03 January 2013
7. CCAN NET Cancer Patients Conference Long Island
(Past Conferences )
CCAN's annual conference was held in Long Island, New York on August 20th 2011.  The theme of the day long conference was "Multidisciplinary Approach to the Diagnosis Treatment and Monitoring of NETs." ...
Created on 20 August 2011
8. Roger J.
(Bad Berka)
A Patient Story – Roger J.   I watched the tear rise in my wife's eyes as the door to the double foyer closed and see watched me walk into the PRRT radiation ward. She wanted to spend the morning in ...
Created on 13 June 2011
9. Jim M.
(Bad Berka)
... of Valium I was taking combined with the anti-nausea drug had me a little tipsy. So, I elected to use a wheelchair. Upon entering the customs hall in Charlotte, the radiation I was emitting triggered ...
Created on 22 April 2011
10. Flora
(Bad Berka)
... chemical formula. The targeting device was the octreotide, the very medication which attaches to receptors on the cancer cells to turn them off to control symptoms. The weapon was radiation provided by ...
Created on 18 April 2011
11. FAQs
(FAQs)
... limit to the amount of radiation their body can absorb during their lifetime, so the number of treatment cycles will be constrained by this factor as well. As of 2011 the maximum number of cycles that ...
Created on 13 April 2011
12. At the Clinic in Pictures
(At the Clinic)
... with the Nuclear Medicine Ward. This Ward is located on the Third Floor of the main building and we are told that the walls of the Ward are lead lined because of the radiation used there. There are numerous ...
Created on 13 April 2011
13. What are the Risk and Side Effects of PRRT
(PRRT)
... arise from radiation toxicity affecting three things: 1) the blood system producing Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and Blood Platelets, 2) the functioning of the kidneys and 3) the functioning of the ...
Created on 16 March 2011
14. Going Home
(Post Treatment)
... several days following discharge and while traveling. This is done to help the kidneys flush any radiation from the body. The best thing a patient can do is to plan ahead and have some medications on ...
Created on 21 January 2011
15. Clothing To Take
(Prior to hospital stay)
... you. At the end of the treatment all clothing/worn items will be scanned with an instrument used to determine radiation levels. If radiation is found to be above a certain level, then some articles of ...
Created on 21 January 2011
16. Scans and Tests at the Zentralklinik
(In Clinic Tests)
...  Typically this is among the first tests/scans to be done on a patient because the function of the kidneys is essential to the PRRT process. The kidneys are key to ridding the body of the radiation that ...
Created on 20 January 2011
17. Kidney Protection
(Process)
The first step in the process of receiving the PRRT is to give the patient a dose of 1,500 ml of an amino acid solution designed to protect the kidneys from the effects of the radiation. The amino acid ...
Created on 20 January 2011
18. Bad Berka Approach to PRRT
(Background)
... that patients should be administered lower amounts of radioactivity at more frequent and prolonged intervals (3-6 months in between therapies), rather than given a high dose of radiation at shorter intervals. ...
Created on 20 January 2011
19. 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
20. How Does PRRT Work
(PRRT)
... attract the octreotide and this chemical with the radioactive material is absorbed into the tumor by the receptor. The radiation then starts to kill the tumor cells. This makes PRRT a form of targeted ...
Created on 20 January 2011