Predictive accuracy and clinical benefit of a nomogram aimed to predict 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT positivity in patients with prostate cancer recurrence and PSA < 1 ng/ml external validation on a single institution database.
Lorenzo BianchiMarco BorghesiRiccardo SchiavinaPaolo CastellucciAmelio ErcolinoFederico Mineo BianchiUmberto BarbaresiGiulia PolverariEugenio BrunocillaStefano FantiFrancesco CeciPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2020)
We assessed similar suboptimal predictive accuracies in the external cohort compared to the original one. PSA and ongoing ADT were confirmed as positive predictors, and the most informative nomogram cut-off resulted 35%.