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BACKGROUND:In the past years the bone seeking radiopharmaceutical samarium lexidronam ((153)Sm-EDTMP) has been increasingly used alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy and/or bisphosphonates for the treatment of painful bone metastasis. OBJECTIVE:Its use has been explored in different solid tumours. In this report we explore its interesting characteristics and describe our experience in multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS:(153)Sm-EDTMP has an affinity for bone and concentrates in areas of bone turnover. It decays as a therapeutic beta-emission and at the same time as gamma-photon that can be used for tracking its concentration with bone scan imaging. Ten patients with symptomatic MM were treated to achieve pain control. RESULTS:Encouraging results were obtained in MM patients. The use of this radioisotope could be largely improved.
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Expert Opin Investig Drugsjournal_title
Expert opinion on investigational drugsauthors
Abruzzese E,Iuliano F,Trawinska MM,Di Maio Mdoi
10.1517/13543784.17.9.1379subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-09-01 00:00:00pages
1379-87issue
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1354-3784issn
1744-7658journal_volume
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