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Injection of Botulinum Toxin for Preventing Salivary Gland Toxicity after PSMA Radioligand Therapy: an Empirical Proof of a Promising Concept

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The dose-limiting salivary gland toxicity of 225Ac-labelled PSMA for treatment of metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer remains unresolved. Suppressing the metabolism of the gland by intraparenchymal injections of botulinum toxin appears to be a promising method to reduce off-target uptake. A 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT scan performed 45 days after injection of 80 units of botulinum toxin A into the right parotid gland in a 63-year-old patient showed a decrease in the SUVmean in the right parotid gland of up to 64% as compared with baseline. This approach could be a significant breakthrough for radioprotection of the salivary glands during PSMA radioligand therapy.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Anthony Chang, Rethink Imaging, USA, for providing 3D reconstructed PET/CT images. We are also grateful to Dr. Guillaume Chaussé, Nuclear Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for his remarks on pharmacological and cellular mechanisms in the salivary glands after injection of botulinum toxin.

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  1. Richard P. Baum and Thomas Langbein contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany

    Richard P. Baum, Thomas Langbein, Aviral Singh, Mostafa Shahinfar, Christiane Schuchardt & Harshad Kulkarni

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    Gerd Fabian Volk

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Richard P. Baum, Thomas Langbein, Aviral Singh, Mostafa Shahinfar, Christiane Schuchardt, Gerd Fabian Volk, Harshad Kulkarni declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Baum, R.P., Langbein, T., Singh, A. et al. Injection of Botulinum Toxin for Preventing Salivary Gland Toxicity after PSMA Radioligand Therapy: an Empirical Proof of a Promising Concept. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 52, 80–81 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-017-0508-3

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