NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:PGNX), an oncology company developing innovative targeted medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer, today announced that four abstracts highlighting PyL (¹⁸F-DCFPyL) have been selected for oral presentation at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2019 Annual Meeting, which will be held December 1-6, 2019, in Chicago, IL. Details on the presentations are included below.
Date & Time: Monday, December 2, 2019 from 10:10 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. Central Time
Session Title: Nuclear Medicine Series: New PET Tracers for Prostate Cancer
Title: The Impact of 18F-DCFPyL PET-CT Imaging on Staging and Clinical Management of Men with De Novo Prostate Cancer: A First Experience within Veterans Healthcare System
Abstract No.: RC211-08
Date & Time: Monday, December 2, 2019 from 11:15 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. Central Time
Session Title: Nuclear Medicine Series: New PET Tracers for Prostate Cancer
Title: Prospective Comparison of 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT with 18F-NaF PET/CT for Detection of Skeletal Metastases in Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Abstract No.: RC211-13
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Central Time
Session Title: Emerging Technologies: Prostate Cancer Imaging & Management - Update 2019
Title: Molecular Prostate Imaging: Chemistry to Clinic
Abstract No.: RC317C
Date & Time: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 from 3:30 p.m. to 3:40 p.m. Central Time
Session Title: Molecular Imaging (Oncology)
Title: Comparison of 18F-DCFPyL-PSMA PET/CT and PET/MR for Detection of Prostate Cancer Biochemical Recurrence: Additive Value of PyL PET with Pelvic MRI for Salvage Radiation Therapy Planning
Abstract No.: SSM16-04
About PROGENICS
Progenics is an oncology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative targeted medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer, including: therapeutic agents designed to treat cancer (AZEDRA®, 1095, and PSMA TTC); prostate-specific membrane antigen (“PSMA”) targeted imaging agents for prostate cancer (PyL™ and 1404); and imaging analysis technology (aBSI and PSMA AI). Progenics has three commercial products, AZEDRA, for the treatment of patients with unresectable, locally advanced or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (rare neuroendocrine tumors of neural crest origin) who require systemic anticancer therapy; and oral and subcutaneous formulations of RELISTOR® (methylnaltrexone bromide) for the treatment of opioid-induced constipation, which are partnered with Bausch Health Companies Inc.
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