Metastatic Bone Pain Therapy Clinical Applications

 

Pain Palliation (*)

Prostate Carcinoma

-  Breast Carcinoma

 

(*) - Intractable bone pain with conventional therapy

     - Life expectancy > 1 month

 

References:

1 Tripathi M, Singhal T, Chandrasekhar N, Kumar P, Bal C, Jhulka PK, Bandopadhyaya G, Malhotra A. Samarium-153  ethylenediamine tetramethylene phosphonate therapy for bone pain palliation in skeletal metastases. Indian J Cancer. 2006 Apr-Jun;43(2):86-92.
 
2 Sapienza MT, Ono CR, Guimarães MI, Watanabe T, Costa PA, Buchpiguel CA. Retrospective evaluation of bone  pain palliation after samarium-153-EDTMP therapy. Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo. 2004 Dec;59(6):321-8.

3 Olea E.G. and Massardo T. Terapia radioisotópica paliativa en el dolor óseo de origen metastásico, p: 563 -569 in: Medicina Nuclear Aplicaciones Clínicas. Eds: I. Carrio - P. González. Editorial Masson, Barcelona España, 2003. 

4 Silberstein EB. Teletherapy and radiopharmaceutical therapy of painful bone metastases. Semin Nucl Med. 2005 Apr;35(2):152-8.
 
 

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