18F-PSMA-PET/CT in comparison with whole-body MRI and combination of conventional CT and bone scintigraphy for detection of recurrent disease in prostate cancer patients with rising PSA levels after initial definitive treatment
摘要
The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic performance of radiolabeled prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeted positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA-PET/CT) with 18F, whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI), including diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and a combination of conventional computed tomography and bone scintigraphy (CT/BS) for the detection of recurrent lesions in patients with prostate cancer with rising PSA levels following initial definitive treatment.
MethodsThis retrospective study used part of the dataset from a previous phase 2 study conducted between February 2019 and March 2022, which evaluated the detection efficacy of 18F-FSU-880 PSMA-PET/CT in 72 patients with suspected recurrent prostate cancer after definitive treatment. Of these, 35 patients (age 56–82 years, PSA level 0.24–40.00 ng/ml) who underwent both PSMA-PET/CT and WB-MRI were reviewed by six radiologists. Sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy were compared using McNemar’s test, and positive predictive value was compared using Fisher’s exact test.
ResultsTotal 132 true-positive prostate cancer lesions were detected in 23 of 35 patients (66%). The sensitivity of PSMA-PET/CT (100%) was significantly higher than those of both WB-MRI (57%) and CT/BS (32%) in the per-patient analysis (p = 0.002 and p < 0.001, respectively). In the per-lesion analysis, the sensitivity of PSMA-PET/CT (88%) was significantly higher than those of WB-MRI (44%) and CT/BS (6%) (p < 0.001 and p < 0.001, respectively).
Conclusions18F-FSU-880 PSMA-PET/CT showed a more favorable diagnostic performance, especially in terms of sensitivity, than WB-MRI and CT/BS in detecting recurrent disease in patients with prostate cancer after definitive treatment.