Overcoming Barriers to Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT): An Overview From the NRG-NCI Working Group on Dosimetry of Radiopharmaceutical Therapy

Radiopharmaceutical therapy for palliation of bone pain from osseous metastases.

Bone metastasis occurs as a result of a complex pathophysiologic process between host and tumor cells leading to cellular invasion, migration adhesion, and stimulation of osteoclastic and osteoblastic activity. The process is mediated by parathyroid hormones, cytokines, and tumor-derived factors. Several sequelae occur as a result of osseous metastases and resulting bone pain can lead to signif...

Affiliated to the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences the International Research Group of Immunoscintigraphy and Therapy ( Irist)

Teletherapy and radiopharmaceutical therapy of painful bone metastases.

Bone pain from metastatic disease is most common in cancers of the breast, prostate, and lung. Despite the World Health organization algorithm for treating such pain, the outcomes are not often satisfactory. In 2005, there will be 3 radiopharmaceuticals available in the United States that can reduce or relieve bone pain caused by osteoblastic metastases with apparently equal efficacy. Phosphoru...

Greetings from the New President of World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy

As the New Year 2016 has been rolling on, I am looking forward to continue serving the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy (WARMTH) as its President for the remaining part of 2016 and the year 2017. I must again repeat what I said in my initial letter when I took my office that I greatly appreciate my predecessors (Richard Baum, the Late Ajit Padhy, and Harvey Turner)...

Ga Radiopharmaceutical Preparations

The renaissance of Ga radiopharmacy has led to great advances in automation technology. The availability of a highly efficient, reliable, long-lived Ge/Ga generator system along with a well-established coordination chemistry based on bifunctional chelating agents have been the bases of this development in Ga radiopharmacy. Syntheses of Ga peptides were originally performed by manual or semiauto...