[Effectiveness of Strontium-89 for Neuropathic Pain Caused by Bone Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report]
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Yusuke, Iizuka; Mahiro, Iizuka-Ohashi; Sumi, Kawasaki; Ichiro, Nakai; Takashi, Mizowaki
- Source
- Kaku igaku. The Japanese journal of nuclear medicine. 56(1)
- Subject
- Fatal Outcome
Treatment Outcome
Quality of Life
Strontium Radioisotopes
Humans
Neuralgia
Pain Management
Bone Neoplasms
Breast Neoplasms
Female
Middle Aged
- Language
- ISSN
- 2189-9932
The patient was a 47-year-old female with stage IV breast cancer and multiple bone metastases. She received various systemic therapies (hormone therapy and chemotherapy) and underwent mastectomy between 2013 and 2018; in the beginning of 2018, she started experiencing bone metastatic pain in the right hip joint and neural pain on the dorsal side of the left thigh. These symptoms worsened gradually, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory analgesics or narcotic analgesics were not effective for treating this pain. Strontium-89 (