NET Terms
Term | Definition |
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Advanced Accelerator Applications |
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AAA |
Immunotherapy | Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the immune system to treat cancer. Immunotherapies can be categorized as active, passive or hybrid. See Wikipedia |
Lu177 | 177Lutetium (177Lu) has gained popularity as the therapeutic radionuclide of choice due to its desirable physical properties. Ideally, the emission characteristics of a therapeutic radionuclide should match the lesion size/volume to be treated to ideally focus energy within the tumour rather than in the tissue surrounding the lesion. |
Lutathera | Lutathera® (lutetium Lu 177 dotatate*) is for the treatment of somatostatin receptor positive gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs), including foregut, midgut, and hindgut neuroendocrine tumors, in adults. |
Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) | Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT), a form of treatment comprising of a targeting molecule that carries a radioactive component |
SNMMI | Professional Society of 15,000 members supporting nuclear imaging and therapies based in Reston, VA. SNMMI.ORG |
Theranostics | is a treatment strategy that combines therapeutics with diagnostics. It associates both a diagnostic test that identifies patients most likely to be helped or harmed by a new medication, and targeted drug therapy based on the test results. Ga68 Dotatate (NETSPOT) and Lu177 Dotatate (Lutathera) are Theragnostic pairs. |
Xermelo | telotristat ethyl controls diarrhea for those whose diarrhea is serotonin produced. telotristat ethyl method of action is to inhibit seroatonin production. |