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ArticleWorld journal of nuclear medicine

Ra223 in Bone Metastases with Osteolytic Activity.

Renato Patrizio Costa, Davide Cardile, Alessandra Murabito, Vincenzo Tripoli, Francesco Verderame

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Article in World journal of nuclear medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Renato Patrizio CostaNuclear Medicine, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Davide CardileNuclear Medicine, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Alessandra MurabitoNuclear Medicine, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Vincenzo TripoliNuclear Medicine, Biomedical Department of Internal and Specialist Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.
Francesco VerderameDepartment of Oncology, Villa Sofia-Cervello Hospital, Palermo, Italy.
University of Palermo · ITOspedale Vincenzo Cervello · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radium 223 dichloride (Ra223) is the only targeted alpha therapy able to extend survival in patients with bone metastases from prostate cancer. Mechanism of action and data currently available focused mainly on osteoblastic metastases from prostate cancer. In our institution, a patient with breast cancer affected by osteolytic metastases was treated with off-label use of Ra223. The evaluation of the deposit areas of Ra223 showed a perfect overlap with the regions of osteolysis previously detected by scintigraphy, indicating a possible therapeutic effect. This case report is the first document attesting Ra223 deposit in osteolytic metastases opening new opportunity of therapeutic development for this radiopharmaceutical.

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Bone metastasesbreast cancerosteoblastic bone metastasesosteolytic bone metastasesradium 223

Identifiers

PMID29719487
PMCPMC5905256
OpenAlexW2801408970

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