Health and Fitness

FDA Approves Production of Imaging Agent That Helps Detect Prostate Cancer

Mayo Clinic is the first facility approved to manufacture Choline C 11 Injection

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–September 12, 2012.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the production and use of Choline C 11 Injection, a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging agent used to help detect recurrent prostate cancer.

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Choline C 11 Injection is administered intravenously to produce an image that helps to locate specific body sites for follow-up tissue sampling and testing in men with recurrent…

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