The role of bone scanning in the cancer patient

✍ Scribed by Luther W. Brady; Millard N. Croll

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 527 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-2348
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00360939

✦ Synopsis

The past few years have been notable by the torrent of work which has served to establish bone scanning as one of the most useful nuclear medicine procedures. The quantitative radiopharmacology of the 99roTe phosphates has great possibilities for obtaining reliable and reproducible bone scans of high quality. Bone scans are extremely useful in staging malignant disease, particularly with primaries involving breast, prostate, lung, kidney and thyroid, but are also useful in the workup of the lymphomas, in the female genital cancer tract, and primary bone malignancy. The full potential of these compounds in the care of the cancer patient has been confirmed.