Published May 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

E-PSMA. The EANM standardized reporting guidelines v1.0 for PSMA-PET

  • 1. Nuclear Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin (Italy)
  • 2. Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, VU University Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 3. Department of Theranostics and Nuclear Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Darlinghurst, NSW (Australia)
  • 4. St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW (Australia)
  • 5. Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 6. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (United Kingdom)
  • 7. Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, 90095, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  • 8. School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technische Universität München, Munich (Germany)
  • 9. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 10. Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
  • 11. Molecular Imaging and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
  • 12. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (United States)
  • 13. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (India)
  • 14. Division of Nuclear Medicine, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (United States)
  • 15. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rostock University Medical Centre, Rostock (Germany)
  • 16. Nuclear Medicine, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
  • 17. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), University Hospital Essen, Essen (Germany)

Description

The development of consensus guidelines for interpretation of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is needed to provide more consistent reports in clinical practice. The standardization of PSMA-PET interpretation may also contribute to increasing the data reproducibility within clinical trials. Finally, guidelines in PSMA-PET interpretation are needed to communicate the exact location of findings to referring physicians, to support clinician therapeutic management decisions. A panel of worldwide experts in PSMA-PET was established. Panelists were selected based on their expertise and publication record in the diagnosis or treatment of PCa, in their involvement in clinical guidelines and according to their expertise in the clinical application of radiolabeled PSMA inhibitors. Panelists were actively involved in all stages of a modified, nonanonymous, Delphi consensus process. According to the findings obtained by modified Delphi consensus process, panelist recommendations were implemented in a structured report for PSMA-PET. The E-PSMA standardized reporting guidelines, a document supported by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), provide consensus statements among a panel of experts in PSMA-PET imaging, to develop a structured report for PSMA-PET in prostate cancer and to harmonize diagnostic interpretation criteria.

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://lukas.fiz-karlsruhe.de/lukas/springer/259_2021_Article_5245.pdf; Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-021-05245-y

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Journal Title
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Journal Volume
48
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 1626-1638
ISSN
1619-7070
CODEN
EJNMA6