The Established Nuclear Medicine Modalities for Imaging of Bone Metastases
Nazish Jabeen1, Rashid Rasheed2, Asma Rafique1
1Department of Pharmacy, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Background:
The skeleton is one of the frequent site of metastases in advanced cancer. Prostate, breast and renal cancers mostly metastasize to bone.
Discussion:
Malignant tumors lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Identification of bone lesions is a crucial step in diagnosis of disease at early stage, monitoring of disease progression and evaluation of therapy. Diagnosis of cancer metastases is based on uptake of bone-targeted radioactive tracer at different bone remodeling sites.
Conclusion:
This manuscript summarizes already established and evolving nuclear medicine modalities (e.g. bone scan, SPECT, SPECT/CT, PET, PET/CT) for imaging of bone metastases.
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