PSMA Pet scan are typically used for the conditions when a patient who had a primary treatment like surgery or radiotherapy and after that their PSA level increases. A sudden rise in the PSA level shows the possibility of failure to clear the disease fully. This helps to go forward for the further assessment regarding the location, stage etc of the disease.

Since the earlier days, a bone scan is done to find out the spreading of cancer beyond the initial site. There were also patients who have metastatic diseases which will not grow enough to be identified easily. Sometimes it may present in lymph nodes and spread to soft tissues which are minute and can’t be found by bone scan. The PSMA PET scan is really helpful in this situation as they provide a scan with a detailed picture including the changes in lymph nodes, minute changes in the soft tissues and bones.

What exactly the PET scan is?

The Positron Emission Tomography scan is shortened as the PET scan, which is widely used for developing a complete detailed and three-dimensional imagery which help you in diagnosing the disease in the best way. An ideal diagnosis at the primary stage will help you to be cured of any disease.

How to carry out the PET scan?

The radionuclides are predominantly used for PET scans. They are radioactive substances which are assembled at the places where the cells are extremely active. The cancerous cells are more active than normal cells, therefore; these scans can easily track the disease by spotting the areas where cells function actively by capturing the image effectively.

When you carry out a PET scan, a substance called radiotracer is injected into your body. Cancer cells respond to the radiotracers differently unlike normal cells. They use the radiotracer more quickly than normal ones. One of the major challenges in the prostate cancer field is to find the best radiotracer as the cells of prostate cancer does not react to all radiotracers which are used to diagnose other cancers.

Other than the ability to detect prostate cancer, the PET diagnosis is also used to find out various other medical conditions as well. In the case of cancer, the PET scan is widely used in cancer detection centres in Kerala majorly for diagnosis and check the progress of cancer treatment.

Benefits of PET scan

Diagnostic centres in Kochi primarily use the PET ct scanning to identify the growth of cancer in humans. Due to the extreme development that enables to produce detailed, three-dimensional mappings of the area affected by cancer, the PET scan has become an impactful scanning method of nuclear medicine in Kerala.

The key advantages of PET diagnosis as follows;

• The PET scan can easily differentiate the cancerous and non-cancerous growth formed anywhere in the human body. This ability proves that the PET scan is an excellent tool to focus and trigger the treatment accordingly which highly contributes to the radiology field in Kerala.
• As PET scan used by cancer clinics in Kerala, is able to detect the metabolic activities in the organs and cells, the scan helps you to detect or find out the growing extent of cancer without undergoing a biopsy or any surgeries.
• The PET diagnosis used in cancer detection centres is effective and prompt in its function of analyzing the growth of cancer in the human body as they are detected under the response of the human body to various biochemical reactions. This refined ability of PET scan helps to detect the metabolic activities in cells and thereby identifying the growth of cancer even before they become visible. This helps you to go for a swift diagnosis, initial-stage treatment with great effectiveness and most possible chances to cure the disease.
• The PET scan is chiefly used as they don’t create any complex of fear-inducing treatment methods like other cancer treatment techniques instead; they provide positive psychological effects among the patients.

These benefits and unique features make PET scan the highly trusted and reliable method for diagnosing prostate cancer, the cancer growths and many other diseases in the cancer detection centres in Kerala. Or better assurance you can consult any Oncologist and ask about undergoing the PET scan for evaluating current disease status.