Professor Kim Si-hyun of Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital Awarded Academic Grand Prize by the Korean Society of Urologic Oncology

"PSMA PET/CT is Useful for Detecting Metastatic Cancer Cells"

Suncheonhyang University Cheonan Hospital announced on the 25th that Professor Kim Si-hyun (40) of the Department of Urology received the Grand Prize in the academic award category at the 22nd Korean Society of Urologic Oncology Multidisciplinary Conference.

This award was given for Professor Kim's paper titled "A Study on Changes in Treatment Trends Using Ga-68 PSMA-11 PET/CT in Prostate Cancer Patients." The paper highlights that PSMA PET/CT is more useful than magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or bone scans for detecting primary lesions and metastatic cancer cells during prostate cancer examinations.

PSMA PET/CT is a diagnostic method that involves injecting the radiopharmaceutical Ga-68 PSMA-11 into the body, which binds to the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) on prostate cancer cells.

Professor Kim Si-hyun stated, "This is the first domestic study to describe the utility of PSMA PET/CT, which can diagnose lesions that are deeply hidden or very small and previously missed in prostate cancer," adding, "It will help in making accurate diagnoses and determining treatment methods."

He further added, "In the future, we plan to conduct follow-up studies to additionally verify the utility of PSMA PET/CT by comparing it with various substances developed domestically using gallium."