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LUTETIUM-177

Radioisotope: Lu-177

Theranostic Role: Therapeutic Agent & SPECT Imaging

T1/2 (Half-Life): 6.7 Days

Decay Mode: BETA, GAMMA

Energy: Eβeta max 497 keV, Gamma 113-208 keV

Range: In Tissue: 0.25-2mm

Decay Daughters: Hf177

Status: FDA Approvals: PLUVICTO® (2022), LUTATHERA® (2017)

SAMARIUM-153

Radioisotope: Sm153

Theranostic Role: Therapeutic

T1/2 (Half-Life): 1.9 Days

Decay Mode: BETA, GAMMA

Energy: Beta: Max 808 keV Gamma: 103 keV (28%)

Range: 0.6 mm

Decay Daughters: Eu153 (Stable)

Status: FDA Approval: QUADRAMET® (1997)

TECHNETIUM-99m

Radioisotope: Tc-99m

Theranostic Role: SPECT Imaging

T1/2 (Half-Life): 6 Hours

Decay Mode: GAMMA

Energy: 140 keV (89.1%)

Range: N/A

Decay Daughters: Tc99

Status: FDA Approval: First in 1980’s

Distinguished Investigator

A Distinguished Investigator of Theranostics is a level of distinction conferred upon an individual physician who has demonstrated a mastery of conducting novel radioligand therapies and molecular imaging clinical trials.

Oliver Sartor, MD

Dr. Oliver Sartor is an internationally recognized expert in prostate cancer. His medical practice and research have focused on prostate cancer since 1990 when he finished a medical oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, led or co-led multiple national and international clinical studies, including three radiopharmaceutical phase III studies pivotal for FDA approval in prostate cancer (Samarium-153 EDTMP, Radium-223, and Lu-177-PSMA-617). He has lectured widely, and at last count has given invited lectures in 33 countries. He is currently the Associate Dean for Oncology, Medical Director of the Tulane Cancer Center, and serves as the Laborde Professor for Cancer Research at Tulane Medical School with appointments in both the Medicine and Urology Departments. He is the Medical Oncology Chair of the GU committee of NRG, a national cancer research group. He is also a past member of the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counselors (Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology).

RLT Components

RADIOLIGAND THERAPY (RLT) is a highly effective approach to very accurately locating cancer cells and effectively killing those same cells by delivery various radioisotopes to a specific target that is located on a type of cancer. Some of the Radioisotopes are diagnostic for locating cancers & some therapeutic to treat the cancers.

There are several Components to a RLT that are simply demonstrated in the truck diagram including:

Cancer Targets
Ligand (demonstrated as the Truck GPS set to find a specific Target)
Diagnostic Radioisotopes (demonstrated as light bulbs that light the cancer Targets on a PET scan)
Therapeutic Radioisotopes (demonstrated as bombs that kill cancer cells that express the target with either Alpha or Beta radiation)
Linker (demonstrated as the hitch keeping the Radioisotope attached to the Ligand)
Chelator (demonstrated as the Trailers which keeps the Radioisotope on Target).

To learn more about the specific components being studied today on clinical trials around the world check out the RLT COMPONENTSTab.

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