CancerCompass message board discussion started by Malm1313 on 8/18/2006 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,6505,0.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Has anyone had the ProstaScint test done? Any useful information on this test would be appreciated. Also, has anyone visited the Cancer Treatment Centers of America? Whats your impression and results with them? Malm1313 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT Dear Robert, Prostascint in theory sounded very good when they were developing it. But on testing it was found to have a very high rate of false positives and false negatives. In statistical terms, it had poor sensitivity and poor specificity. I am not a urologist. So perhaps I am completely off base here. But my personal feelings are that if this test were more accurate I would think it would be standard of care to determine if a small prostate cancer had spread to the local pelvic lymph nodes or not. But it is not an accurate test, and I doubt it will ever be a standard of care. It is wrong often enough that I personally would not base any decision about health on anything that test concluded. What I would think would be a far better test would be a PET scan. It will show if the pelvic lymph nodes were infiltrated with cancer, and it is a very accurate test, and it is the standard of care for staging workups of almost all cancers, including prostate. If you have prostate cancer, and I am assuming you do, don't take any action based on my comments. Get an opinion or a second opinion from an oncologist. If you have only seen your urologist and have not yet seen an oncologist, times-a-wastin! If you are looking for a top of the line facility to go to, pick one near where you live from the following list of top cancer facilities 2006: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/rankings/specihqcanc.htm Best of Luck, -Amnia Amnia Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT your message was very interesting, I have been also thinking to have the pet scan, unfortunately I could not find article thehttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/rankings/specihqcanc.htm may be the time has gone past. I will appreciate if you have saved the copy if you could email to me greately appreciated. Raj --- Message edited by CancerCompass staff: for personal protection, email address removed. Please review CancerCompass Member Guidelines at http://www.cancercompass.com/common/guidelines.html ---- Raj S. Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT Dear Raj, go to www.google.com on your web browser and type in: "best cancer hospitals 2006" and press enter. look for www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/rankings/specihqcanc.htm at this time it is number 1 (at the top of the list) .. click on it. I clicked on it and the link works just fine. -Amnia Amnia Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT