Stijn
nucmedphys.bsky.social
Stijn
@nucmedphys.bsky.social
Nuclear medicine physics in Antwerp
Anything that can be quantitative should be
Patients receiving Lu-DOTATATE had an overall survival of 48 months. Patients receiving Lu-PSMA had an OS of 13 months.

Why are we burdening these patients with time spent away from their families or worrying about cancers that will never come?

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Radiation exposure to families of patients following administration of 177Lu-DOTATATE for the treatment of metastatic neuroendocrine tumours - EJNMMI Physics
Background The administration of 177Lu-DOTATATE peptide receptor radionuclide therapy to patients for the treatment of well-differentiated, metastatic neuroendocrine tumours poses an external radiatio...
ejnmmiphys.springeropen.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
At this point, my pre-test probability for any medical screening showing benefit is near the bottom.
Trying to bring a bit of old fashioned classic twitter-era medical discussion to Bluesky!

Made a short video about the huge Prostate Cancer Screening study just published in @nejm.org. Regular media and social media docs have, predictably, made a hash of the results #medsky
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Screening Saves Lives! Right??
YouTube video by Medlife Crisis
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November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Every once in a while I take a look at what is the current state of the field I used to study at university. We are nearing the precision to probe fundamental physics using atoms. Nuclear magnetic octupole moment, electric hexadecapole or
electric quadrupole shift!

dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha...
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM