The Gallium 68 scan, used with functional PET imaging, is a nuclear medicine scan that relies on the over-expression of somatostatin receptors to visualize tumours. NETs typically express several somatostatin receptor subtypes in [...]
As we advised previously, in July of this year the Manitoba government issued a bulletin http://www.gov.mb.ca/health/mdbif/…/bulletins/bulletin93.pdf that indicated a change in the listing for Somatuline (from 1 to 3 and no access [...]
Caprelsa is indicated for the treatment of symptomatic or progressive medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in adult patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease. An application for this drug was [...]
Afinitor is currently paid for by provincial drug plans for patients with well-or moderately differentiated neuroendocrine tumours of pancreatic origin (pNET), in patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic disease. [...]