[The efficacy of radiohypophysectomy with yttrium 90 in metastatic breast cancer (author's transl)].
Radiohypophysectomy in 176 women with metastatic breast cancer, treated over the past 20 years, did not prolong life, but relieved pain in almost half of the patients. This procedure can be carried out quickly and without risk even in severly debilitated patients.
D001317:Austria; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010910:Pituitary Irradiation / Q000379:methods*; D015021:Yttrium Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D015021:Yttrium Radioisotopes
Erfahrungen mit der Hypophysenausschaltung mit Yttrium 90 beim metastasierenden Mammakarzinom an der II. Chirurgischen Universitätsklinik.