A Bone Scan Is Valuable for Primary Staging of Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer in a Low-Resource Setting (Nigeria).
Akintunde T OrunmuyiSikiru A AdebayoOlayinka Stephen IlesanmiAugustine O TakureE Oluwabunmi Olapade-OlaopaPublished in: Nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2022)
The role of bone scanning in staging newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients in Nigeria is consistent with global reports. Our study confirms that a bone scan finding is well associated with the risk classification using PSA and Gleason score in our population.
Keyphrases
- newly diagnosed
- prostate cancer
- radical prostatectomy
- bone mineral density
- computed tomography
- lymph node
- soft tissue
- bone loss
- bone regeneration
- end stage renal disease
- machine learning
- pet ct
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- deep learning
- postmenopausal women
- high resolution
- magnetic resonance
- prognostic factors
- mass spectrometry
- patient reported