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Nuclear bone imaging in metastatic cancer of the prostate
Author(s) -
Pollen Jeffrey J.,
Gerber Kenneth,
Ashburn William L.,
Schmidt Joseph D.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19810601)47:11<2585::aid-cncr2820471113>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , cancer , prostate , radiology , nuclear medicine , pathology
A reproducible technique of bone scanning in prostatic cancer is described that helps ensure the production of successive studies of highly comparable technical quality. Through an analysis of survival data based on changes in distribution, anatomic extent, and intensity of bone scan abnormalities in patients with advanced prostatic cancer, it is demonstrated that alterations in the appearance of the bone scan correlate closely with disease activity and have great prognostic significance.