Lutathera Therapy for Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumors

Course overview

This course will cover Indications for which study is performed; Radiopharmaceutical, method of preparation, radionuclide used, quality control procedures, prescribed dose, route of administration, and clinical pharmacology; normal distribution of the drug; patient preparation; imaging protocols and parameters, instrumentation used; adverse reactions of the drug; internal radiation dosimetry After completion of this course, one should be able to list several indications for therapeutic use of Lutathera; Identify the radiopharmaceutical used, the route of administration, the typical prescribed dose, and the clinical pharmacology; describe the radiolabeling procedure and the method of assessing quality control; describe therapeutic protocols; identify normal and abnormal images; give a brief summary of internal radiation dosimetry following administration of Lutathera