Surgery: Treatment of Oligometastatic Disease

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Surgery: Treatment of Oligometastatic Disease

Fig. 13.1 A D1 solitary osteolytic metastasis; the 56-year- old patient underwent en bloc vertebrectomy and reconstruction with homoplastic diaphysis segment filled with the autoplastic morcellized bone, plates, and screws;…

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Detection of Bone Metastases and Evaluation of Therapy Response in Prostate Cancer Patients by Radiolabelled Choline PET/CT

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Detection of Bone Metastases and Evaluation of Therapy Response in Prostate Cancer Patients by Radiolabelled Choline PET/CT

Fig. 7.1 Pathway of choline metabolism in normal and cancer cell (Cho choline, ChAT choline acetyltransferase, ACho acetylcholine, ChoK choline kinase, CMP cytidylate, DAG diacylglycerol, PCho phosphocholine, CDP diphosphocholine, PPi…

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Nuclear Medicine Modalities to Image Bone Metastases with Bone-Targeting Agents: Conventional Scintigraphy and Positron-Emission Tomography

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Nuclear Medicine Modalities to Image Bone Metastases with Bone-Targeting Agents: Conventional Scintigraphy and Positron-Emission Tomography

Fig. 6.1 Prostate cancer patient with increased PSA level after radical prostatectomy. (a) 99mTc-MDP planar whole-body bone scan in anterior (left) and posterior (right) views shows multiple increasing tracer uptakes…

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Imaging of Glycolysis with 18F-FDG PET

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Imaging of Glycolysis with 18F-FDG PET

Fig. 8.1 Physiopathological processes correlate with the entrance of FDG in the prostatic cancer cell. DHT dihydrotestosterone, AR androgen receptors, TCA tricarboxylic acid cycle 8.2 Comparative Diagnostic Accuracy among Imaging…

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Bone Metastases from Prostate Cancer: Hormonal Therapy

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Bone Metastases from Prostate Cancer: Hormonal Therapy

Therapy Mechanism of action Side effects LH-RH agonists (buserelin, goserelin, leuprolide, and triptorelin) Downregulation of LH-RH receptor Flushes, weight increase, impotence, loss of libido, fatigue, decreased muscle mass, osteoporosis, anemia,…

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Bone Homing and Metastasis

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Bone Homing and Metastasis

Fig. 3.1 Bone metastasis of high-grade prostate cancer Fig. 3.2 Bone metastasis of prostate cancer. The neoplastic cells are immunostained with antibody against prostein Understanding the mechanisms by which PCa…

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Bone-Targeted Agents

Jun 25, 2017 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Bone-Targeted Agents

Fig 15.1 Mechanism of action of bisphosphonate, denosumab, and anti-androgen on the bone metastases “vicious cycle.” OCLs osteoclasts, OBLs osteoblasts The efficacy of bisphosphonate treatment on patients with bone metastatic…

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