Early Biochemical Relapse After Radical Prostatectomy: Which Prostate Cancer Patients May Benefit from a Restaging¹¹C-Choline PET/CT Scan Before Salvage Radiation Therapy?

Abstract

(11)C-choline PET/CT may be suggested before S-RT during the early phase of biochemical relapse, to select patients who may benefit from this aggressive treatment. Particularly, patients showing fast PSA kinetics or PSA increasing levels despite ongoing ADT should be studied with (11)C-choline PET/CT before S-RT, considering the higher probability to detect positive findings outside the pelvis.