Thrilled to share
#PRIMARY2 Trial Results. This is the first randomised trial to show that adding [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET-CT to MRI can safely halve the number of men needing a prostate biopsy.
Hot off the press in
@TheLancetOncol 🎉
In 660 men across Australian sites with PI-RADS 2-3 but high clinical risk, PSMA-PET:
- Avoided biopsy in nearly half (49%)
- Was non-inferior for detecting clinically significant cancer (12% vs 16%)
- Halved the overdiagnosis of insignificant cancer (32% to 14%)
Fewer biopsies, less overdiagnosis, whilst not missing clinically significant prostate cancer: a real step forward for the diagnostic pathway.
Enormous congratulations to
@ButeauJames @PeterMacCC , who led this as the centrepiece of his PhD and presented it as a plenary at
#EAU26 in London. And to my brilliant co-lead
@drlouiseemmett - this was a true partnership across our two centres.
Thank you to the UROLOGISTS
@DrDanielMoon @declangmurphy (& many others), nuclear medicine physicians, technologists, radiopharmaceutical scientists across every site, and to
@AnnetteVDHeyden and the
@pros_tic who held it all together.
We are grateful to our funders:
@PCF_Science,
@nhmrc, St Vincent's Curran Foundation, Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation, and
@ANZUPtrials
Most of all, thank you to the 660 men who took part.
Open Access article:
thelancet.com/journals/lanon…