Combined therapy of Sr-89 and zoledronic acid in patients with painful bone metastases(394 views) Storto G, Klain M, Paone G, Liuzzi R, Molino L, Marinelli A, Soricelli A, Pace L, Salvatore M
Keywords: Bone Pain, Combined Therapy, Sr-89, Zoledronic Acid, Bisphosphonic Acid Derivative, Strontium 89, Adult, Aged, Article, Bleeding, Blood Toxicity, Bone Marrow Suppression, Bone Metastasis, Clinical Article, Clinical Feature, Controlled Study, Female, Human, Infection, Nephrotoxicity, Pain Assessment, Patient Monitoring, Physician, Rating Scale, Statistical Significance, Visual Analog Scale, 80 And Over, Bone Neoplasms, Breast Neoplasms, Combined Modality Therapy, Diphosphonates, Follow-Up Studies, Imidazoles, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Metastasis, Palliative Care, Prostatic Neoplasms, Strontium Radioisotopes, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome,
Affiliations: *** IBB - CNR ***
Institute of Biostructures and Bioimages, National Council of Research, Naples, Italy
Department of Biomorphological and Functional Sciences, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
Department of Oncology, University Federico II of Naples, Italy
IRCCS, Neuromed, Pozzilli, Italy
Diagnostic Imaging, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
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Vogel, C. L., Yanagihara, R. H., Wood, A. J., Schnell, F. M., Henderson, C., Kaplan, B. H., Safety and pain palliation of zoledronic acid in patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, or multiple myeloma who previously received bisphosphonate therapy (2004) Oncologist, 9, pp. 687-695
Li, E. C., Davis, L. E., Zoledronic acid: a new parenteral bisphosphonate (2003) Clin. Ther., 25, pp. 2669-2708
Serafini, A. N., Therapy of metastatic bone pain (2001) J. Nucl. Med., 42, pp. 895-906
Altman, G. B., Lee, C. A., Strontium-89 for treatment of painful bone metastases from prostate cancer (1996) Oncol. Nurs. Forum, 23, pp. 523-527
Morris, M. J., Scher, H. I., Clinical approaches to osseous metastases in prostate cancer (2003) The Oncologist, 2, pp. 161-173
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Body, J. J., Clinical research update: zoledronate (1997) Cancer, 80 (8 SUPPL), pp. 1699-1701
Robinson, R. G., Preston, D. F., Schiefelbein, M., Baxter, K. G., Strontium 89 therapy for the palliation of pain due to osseous metastases (1995) JAMA, 274, pp. 420-424
Lewington, V. J., McEwan, A. J., Ackery, D. M., Bayly, R. J., Keeling, D. H., Macleod, P. M., A prospective, randomised double-blind crossover study to examine the efficacy of strontium-89 in pain palliation in patients with advanced prostate cancer metastatic to bone (1991) Eur. J. Cancer, 27, pp. 954-958
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Combined therapy of Sr-89 and zoledronic acid in patients with painful bone metastases