Tag: treatments for carcinoid patients
News and Notes for the Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Community, March 2016
March 23, 2016
Breaking News from Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) about PRRT Treatment— Advanced Accelerator Applications announced on March 23 that the company has initiated an expanded access program (EAP) in the United States for the investigational…
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June 12, 2011
The first device that simultaneously performs PET and MRI scans, a new alpha-emitter-based therapy for NET cancer patients with progressive therapy-resistant tumors, the first–ever randomized virtual clinical trial, over 100 abstracts on carcinoid…
READ MORE1st World Congress on Gallium-68 and Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRNT)
April 5, 2011
Since 1997, when he first used the radiolabeled peptide Y-90 DOTATOC (a somatostatin analogue) to treat a 15-year-old boy with a rare neuroendocrine tumor, called paraganglioma, and saw the boy go from being wheelchair-bound and in terrible pain to …
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