Bone metastasis in breast cancer is a significant clinical problem. It not only indicates
incurable disease with a guarded prognosis, but is also associated with skeletal-related …

Bone pain arising due to skeletal metastases is one of the common complications
experienced by the majority of patients suffering from prostate, breast and lung cancer at the …

Abstract 186Re is an important radionuclide having a half-life of 3.72 d that is suitable for
radioimmunotherapy. Its production in no-carrier-added form is done via charged particle …

Breast cancer is a highly osteotropic neoplasm, and as many as 75% of patients with
metastatic disease will have involvement of the bony skeleton. On radiologic examination …

Candidate drugs targeting the central nervous system (CNS) demonstrate extremely low
clinical success rates, with more than 98% of potential treatments being discontinued due to …

The chapter gives an overview of properties and application of stable and radioactive
isotopes of strontium. Natural strontium consists of the following four stable isotopes: 84 Sr …

Purpose: Painful metastatic bone involvement is common in advanced stages of many
cancers. Between available radionuclides for bone pain palliation, no consensus has been …

Purpose 153 Sm-ethylene diamine tetramethylene phosphonic acid (153 Sm-EDTMP) is
widely used to palliate pain from bone metastases, and is being studied for combination …

Bone pain arising from secondary skeletal malignancy constitutes one of the most common
types of chronic pain among patients with cancer which can lead to rapid deterioration of the …

Theragnostics in nuclear medicine constitute an essential element of precision medicine.
This notion integrates radionuclide diagnostics procedures and radionuclide therapies using …