Salt Lake City-based Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah will be the first U.S. academic medical center to manufacture a novel prostate cancer imaging drug, flotufolastat F 18.
The drug was developed by Blue Earth Diagnostics and will be manufactured through Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Center for Quantitative Cancer Imaging and Theranostics, according to a Feb. 10 news release from the institute.
Flotufolastat F 18, also known as Posluma, enables more accurate detection and staging of prostate cancer tumors by binding to cells that express a prostate-specific membrane antigen.
Posluma will be the third prostate-specific membrane antigen drug manufactured at Huntsman Cancer Institute, the release said.
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