Tag: Ebrahim Delpassand

3rd Theranostics World Congress Offers Free Patient Program on March 14

Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland will be the site of the 3rd Theranostics World Congress on Ga-68 & PRRT from March 12-14, 2015. Co-sponsored by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and Johns Hopkins Medicine, the…

Excel Diagnostics and Nuclear Oncology Center Selected For New Investigational PRRT Treatment and Gallium Scan for Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Patients

For carcinoid, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, and other NET cancer patients seeking the most advanced nuclear medicine opportunities in  the United States, Excel Diagnostics and Nuclear Oncology Center  in Houston, Texas, in collaboration with…

First U.S. Center to Enroll Patients in International, Multicenter Clinical Trial of Lu-177 Octreotate

Excel Diagnostics and Nuclear Oncology Center in Houston, Texas, is the first center in the United States to start recruiting patients in a multicenter randomized clinical trial of Lu-177 Octreotate in patients with progressive midgut carcinoid. …

10 Highlights of the Year 2011 for the Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Community

As the Carcinoid Cancer Foundation looks back on the year 2011, there were many significant events and advances for the carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor (NET) community.  Here are 10 of the year’s important stories:

1)     The FDA approved the first…

Worldwide NET Cancer Awareness Day Update: Events from Australia to Europe to North America

Go around the globe for the second Worldwide NET Cancer Awareness Day (WNCAD) on November 10, 2011. Throughout that day, videos featuring NET events and experts will air on www.netcancerday.org  as the sun travels west, from Australia to Europe to North…

Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Rare Cancer

From your next door neighbor to Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple who just announced that he is stepping down as CEO of the company, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) affect less than 1 person in 100,000 in the United States.  This rare cancer is often…

9 Conferences for the Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Community

If you are a carcinoid or NET cancer survivor, caregiver, family member or medical professional you can learn about what’s happening now and what’s new in carcinoid/NETs treatments, clinical trials, research, and more from specialists…