Is bone scanning of value in patients with breast cancer?
Over the last decade, bone scans have played an increasingly important role in the management of patients with breast carcinoma; by detecting both occult and symptomatic bony metastases. 234 bone scans carried out in this hospital in 1978/79 on patients with breast cancer, at considerable cost to the NHS, are reviewed.
D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D004164:Diphosphonates; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate
D004164:Diphosphonates; D013667:Technetium; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate