Earlier use of Lutetium 177 treatments

Hi alwayshope, that may well be a good option for me as I believe it matches my situation low volume pc with lymph node involvement. Do you know how often the sessions would be. Do you know if they have sibernife at the same location. Living in Cyprus it may be an option if not available here

Thanks

Geoff

Hi Geoff. The sessions are every 6 weeks but might involve a hospital stay of 2-3 days each time because you are radioactive and supposed to keep at least a meter away from other people during this time. On the bottom of my husband's PSMA PET scan it does say that Lutetium 177 could be a possibility for him.

We actually use Iaso hospital in Marousi for radiotherapy and my husband has had EBRT and SBRT there. Like everything in Greece, it is a matter of doing your homework on machines and the expertise of the oncologists. We chose to go private because of the quality of the machines so we pay privately for the radio oncologist and his physicist but we have subsided time on the machine which was around 350 Euros for 6 sessions of SBRT.

Thanks, was the sbrt daily for 6 days or extended.

Could be a way to zap the lymph node 

Geoff 

The SBRT was on alternate days, Mon/Wed/Fri.

Thank you so much for the info. That would be a lot cheaper than the uk. We have a house in Greece but are in the uk at the moment for my husbands treatment of Radium 223. They think it may have failed and the next choice is Lutetium but would have to pay for it. It’s about £12000 a treatment. We have AMKA but not a full one as never worked in Greece so wouldn’t get any treatment subsidised. Just not sure where to start, Athens I suppose and enquire at each clinic.

Good luck with your husbands treatment.

We have AMKA and my understanding is that provided it is up to date (we have to renew it every February) then you are covered unless you are not of pensionable age in which case you need private health cover but in your husband's situation this is probably prohibitive and with exclusions. 

Every time I try to use it they say it’s only valid at the public hospital not any private clinic/scan, drs etc. We are pensionable age but haven’t opted out of the NHS as we don’t live permanently in Greece. Maybe that’s why. I have friends who get discounts but they live there.

You are correct.  As we emigrated before Brexit we still have rights to UK NHS treatment but I think things changed for those emigrating after Brexit so it is a judgement call for people opting to relocate now taking into account tax liabilities and access to healthcare.