Prostate cancer is currently the leading newly diagnosed cancer in the industrialized world. Treatment of prostate cancer is highly dependent on the stage of the disease. Current methods for staging are known to be inaccurate. Prior studies from our department suggest that PET/CT is useful in staging of bone metastases in patients with prostate cancer. The aim of this study is to test the usefulness of Choline PET/CT for the staging of bone metastases compared to current standard methods in patients with newly diagnosed prostate cancer. Better initial staging will result in better treatment of the individual patient. If we are able to develop a more accurate method of staging patients with undetected metastases on current staging will be spared of the side-effects associated with current treatment - impotence, incontinence, radiation damage etc.
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MALE
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Metastases to bone (yes/no)
Timeframe: 1 day (At the time of scan interpretation)