[Treatment of pains from bone metastases with 90Y (author's transl)].
For palliation of pain caused by bone metastases beta radiation isotope therapy was successful. As shown in experimental work on animals bone uptake of 90Y with its shorter half-life is high when it is administered as a citrate complex. 90Y can be eluted with high purity from a 90Sr "cow". The retention in man was found by whole-body counting to be higher than 80%. In preliminary trials on 16 patients the analgetic effect was the same as that of 89Sr. The properties of 90Y therapy are discussed.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D006207:Half-Life; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000532:radiotherapy; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D010166:Palliative Care; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D015021:Yttrium Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D015021:Yttrium Radioisotopes
Yttrium-90 zur Schmerztherapie von Knochenmetastasen.