Publications by authors named "Gayle Funk"
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- * A case series involving five patients showed that preventive management was effective in avoiding infusion reactions during PRRT.
- * PRRT can be safely administered on an outpatient basis for these patients if managed by an interdisciplinary team.
Cardiac metastases are an infrequent site of metastasis in neuroendocrine tumors, and the treatment implications in the era of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) are unclear. Potential safety concerns exist regarding cardiac integrity and function in response to PRRT. We describe our institutional experience with 4 patients with well-differentiated, midgut neuroendocrine tumors with cardiac involvement detected on Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT scans who were treated with PRRT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Somatostatin analog functional imaging with gallium-68 (Ga-68) dotatate positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has demonstrated superiority in lesion detection in patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The clinical impact of this imaging modality on US surgical and medical oncology practices has not been established.
Methods: Consecutive patients with NET at our institution who received an initial Ga-68 dotatate PET/CT between July 2017 and September 2018 were included.