PROSTASCINT

A ProstaScint scan is a nuclear imaging exam that can help your physician detect the spread of prostate cancer to other parts of your body.

What should I expect?

A technologist will inject into a vein in your arm a small amount of ProstaScint, a radioactive material that attaches to prostate cancer cells. You will return for images four days after your injection.

You will be asked to take a laxative and to perform an enema the day before your return for your images.

Imaging will take up to three hours. A CT scan of your pelvis will be done following the ProstaScint study.

Inform your technologist if you have received a ProstaScint injection before. ProstaScint can cause the formation of a specific antibody called HAMA.

ProstaScint is a monoclonal antibody that on rare occasions can cause temporary side effects, to include itching, fever, hypertension, hypotension, elevation in liver enzymes, joint pain, rash, aching, shortness of breath, and alteration of taste. Other side effects may occur in some patients.