Dr. David Rodriguez

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Second Take: Must patients really be warned of radiation risk?
Should radiologists be required to get informed consent from patients before they undergo medical imaging procedures involving radiation? In this Second Take column, radiologists from the University of Pittsburgh assert that such notification is not only burdensome, it undermines the delivery of quality medical care.
December 17, 2013
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Burden of PSMA-expressing prostate cancer before and after treatment with two cycles of Lu-177 PSMA-617. (A and B) Reduction in overall disease burden is evident after treatment. Avidity of patient’s primary prostate tumor and his osseous metastasis shown before (C) and after (D) treatment.
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Since 1996, the patient continually declined androgen deprivation therapy, chemotherapy, and local therapy to the prostate gland.
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Burden of PSMA-expressing prostate cancer before and after treatment with two cycles of Lu-177 PSMA-617. (A and B) Reduction in overall disease burden is evident after treatment. Avidity of patient’s primary prostate tumor and his osseous metastasis shown before (C) and after (D) treatment.
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Images in a 62-year-old woman who presented for screening. (A) Image from DBT screening (the synthesized 2D mediolateral oblique view of the left breast is shown) at year on was interpreted as negative and showing heterogeneously dense breast. (B) Image from molecular breast imaging screening (mediolateral oblique view) at year one reveals a 0.9-cm non-mass focal area of uptake in the left breast (arrow). (C) Targeted ultrasound scan (transverse image) shows a suspicious mass in the 3-o’clock position of the left breast, 4 cm from the nipple. Ultrasound-guided core biopsy and lumpectomy revealed a 0.9-cm grade 2 invasive ductal carcinoma, an estrogen receptor–negative, progesterone receptor–negative, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2–negative lesion, with two sentinel nodes negative (N0).
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