Multimodal imaging of prostate cancer

Abstract

The literature review presents key issues of the clinical application of multimodal imaging methods in prostate cancer. The world scientific community at the present stage exerts intensive efforts to develop risk stratification tools to help making clinical decisions and optimizing the care of patients with prostate cancer. Multimodal imaging plays a key role in the management of prostate cancer patients for its non-invasive approach to assessing the pre­sence and extent of the primary tumor process, metastatic spread. A promising area of nuclear medicine, theranostics, is being actively introduced into clinical practice. The basic principle of the­ranostics is to “see that you are treating” by combining diagnostic markers with therapeutic radioligands.

Keywords

• magnetic resonance imaging
• positron emission tomography
• radiopharmaceutical
• prostate cancer
• review