Nuclear Medicine

Dr Manuala Racca
Email: segreteria.mn@ircc.it
Phone: 011.993.3790 / 3791
Fax: n.d.

Location: ground floor

Activities

PET/CT: 

• 18F-FDG: staging, restaging and  evaluation of treatment response in FDG-avid tumors; 
• 18F-FCH: prostate cancer and parathyroid imaging (primary hyperparathyroidism);
• 18F-PSMA-1007: biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer with low PSA values (< 1 ng/ml).

Scintigraphy:

• Bone scan with 99mTc- diphosphonates (in oncological setting);
• Lymphoscintigrafy for the identification of sentinel node (in breast cancer, melanoma, gynaecologic and urologic cancers);
• Liver scintigraphy with 99mTc-magroaggregated albumin (simulation of TARE, see below).

Therapy:

• radioembolization (TARE, SIRT) of liver lesions with 90Y-resin microspheres.

Doctors
Paola Scapoli MD, Simona Cauda MD, Alessio Rizzo MD
 

Methods of booking and access

• At the Common Booking Centre on the 1st  Floor:
  • in person (from Monday to Friday, from 8.00 to 17.00);
  • by telephone on 011.9933777 (from Monday to Friday, from 11.00 to 12.30 and from 14.00 to 15.30).