To find centers offering a PSMA PET scan, call: 18009640446. Visit https://www.pylarify.com/sitelocator'>https://www.pylarify.com/sitelocator for more information. In this video PCRI's Alex and medical oncologist Mark Scholz, MD, discuss the roles and limitations of PIRADS (the system used to grade the level of suspicion that radiologists have when reading a mpMRI of the prostate) and PSMA PET scans.

0:09 Is the PIRADS score relevant for staging or is it just used to determine who needs a biopsy?

2:31 Are Gleason and PSA the main components of staging a newly diagnosed patient?

3:12 Link to staging quiz: https://pcri.org/stagingquiz

3:33 How useful is 3T MRI for finding cancer in pelvic lymph nodes?

5:42 What is the role of Axumin now that PSMA is approved and covered by my forms of insurance?

7:18 Are there tests available that will let a patient know whether or not their type of prostate cancer expresses PSMA and thus will show up on a PSMA PET scan?

8:22 How quickly will centers be providing PSMA PET scans? Find centers offering PSMA PET at https://www.pylarify.com/

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