Innovative Imaging Techniques with John Kurhanewicz

Описание: John Kurhanewicz, is a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at UCSF. His focus is in the area of prostate cancer and using innovative new imaging techniques to help men at the time of diagnosis to decide on what the best treatment is for them as well as once they decided on a treatment helped them figure out whether the treatment was effective or not. Historically prostate cancer was diagnosed based on pathologic analysis of tissue taken at a an invasive biopsy which only really samples a very small part of the prostate. Oftentimes missing the most important cancers in the prostate. Now with non-invasive imaging we can follow its uptake and its metabolism throughout the body allowing for the ability to for the first time to not only characterize the prostate cancer in the primary side of the prostate, but also after it's spread to lymph nodes and bone in other areas but more importantly to hopefully better assess how well the therapies working or if it stopped working. Whether we can use this information to decide on in this area. Beyond that would be to integrate this technology into routine clinical use as we did with the proton multi parametric exam. UCSF led the world by performing the first Phase one clinical trial fear of this technique and now have multiple clinical trials ongoing in both early stage disease as well as latent disease and trying to figure out how much more information it adds and how we can further improve this information that we're providing for patients and their doctors the translation of new imaging techniques into routine clinical use really takes funding and is there funding for the equipment that we need to perform these studies and also funding for the talented researchers the students and the staff that are required in order to this translation I feel very lucky to be at an institution that has the breadth of resources the talented students and staff the industrial collaborations that truly allows somebody like myself to take a technique a new imaging technique from the bench top all the way into routine clinical practice the other one is and actually the training of the people who are going to become our future engineers or future scientists who are going to be pushing the envelope in healthcare in the future it's really great to be part of that legacy as well.