Criteria for palliation of bone metastases : clinical applications.
Bone metastases are one of the complications that may arise in 14-70% of cancer patients. Although the management of patients with metastatic bone pain must be a multidisciplinary approach including analgesia, hormone treatment, etc., irradiation for patients with metastatic bone pain is specificall...
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Vienna :
International Atomic Energy Agency,
©2007.
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| Series: | IAEA-TECDOC ;
1549. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- External beam radiotherapy
- Radionuclide therapy
- Future developments : novel and tumour specific radiopharmaceuticals
- Rationale for use of both modalities.