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For advanced prostate cancer patients or metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients, conventional treatment modalities, such as surgery, chemotherapy etc. might not prove to be highly effective in terms of controlling the spread of the cancer. This is where Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging are playing an important part in the management of cancer and that too in a personalized manner.

The question that most patients and caregivers ask – What is Targeted Alpha Therapy or Alpha PSMA Therapy? Targeted Alpha PSMA Therapy is a targeted, selective internal cellular level radiotherapy to control advanced prostate and cancer.Targeted Alpha PSMA Therapy uses alpha-emitting radioisotopes like Actinium 225 and is a safe, effective therapy with very minimal side-effects

In the past one year, the Nuclear Oncology Experts team at the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Fortis Memorial Research Institute has treated 30 new patients of Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC) with Ac225 PSMA Therapy (Targeted Alpha Therapy). And the results are similar to the results being achieved by most good Nuclear Medicine Centres across the world – 75-80% of the patients have shown evidences of a significant Radiological and Biochemical Response with prolonged duration of response.