Diagnostic Scan – Ga68

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 [...]

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Somatuline (lanreotide) Access in Manitoba & Alberta

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 [...]

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Caprelsa (vandetanib) for Medullary Thyroid NETs

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 [...]

By |2018-05-07T18:28:11-04:00October 2nd, 2017|Treatment News|Comments Off on Caprelsa (vandetanib) for Medullary Thyroid NETs
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