ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2018 | Volume
: 17 | Issue : 4 | Page : 228--235
Clinical utility of 188Rhenium-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonate as a bone pain palliative in multiple malignancies
Ajit S Shinto1, Madhava B Mallia2, Mythili Kameswaran2, KK Kamaleshwaran1, Jephy Joseph1, ER Radhakrishnan1, Indira V Upadhyay1, R Subramaniam3, Madhu Sairam3, Sharmila Banerjee4, Ashutosh Dash2
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Division of Radiopharmaceuticals, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
3 Department of Radiation Oncology, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Limited, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
4 Radiation Medicine Centre, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Ajit S Shinto
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital Limited, Coimbatore - 641 014, Tamil Nadu
India
188Rhenium-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonate (188Re-HEDP) is a clinically established radiopharmaceutical for bone pain palliation of patients with metastatic bone cancer. Herein, the effectiveness of 188Re-HEDP for the palliation of painful bone metastases was investigated in an uncontrolled initial trial in 48 patients with different types of advanced cancers. A group of 48 patients with painful bone metastases of lung, prostate, breast, renal, and bladder cancer was treated with 2.96–4.44 GBq of 188Re-HEDP. The overall response rate in this group of patients was 89.5%, and their mean visual analog scale score showed a reduction from 9.1 to 5.3 (P < 0.003) after 1 week posttherapy. The patients did not report serious adverse effects either during intravenous administration or within 24 h postadministration of 188Re-HEDP. Flare reaction was observed in 54.2% of patients between day 1 and day 3. There was no correlation between flare reaction and response to therapy (P < 0.05). Although bone marrow suppression was observed in patients receiving higher doses of 188Re-HEDP, it did not result in any significant clinical problems. The present study confirmed the clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of 188Re-HEDP for palliation of painful bone metastases from various types of cancer in developing countries.
How to cite this article:
Shinto AS, Mallia MB, Kameswaran M, Kamaleshwaran K K, Joseph J, Radhakrishnan E R, Upadhyay IV, Subramaniam R, Sairam M, Banerjee S, Dash A. Clinical utility of 188Rhenium-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonate as a bone pain palliative in multiple malignancies.World J Nucl Med 2018;17:228-235
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Shinto AS, Mallia MB, Kameswaran M, Kamaleshwaran K K, Joseph J, Radhakrishnan E R, Upadhyay IV, Subramaniam R, Sairam M, Banerjee S, Dash A. Clinical utility of 188Rhenium-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonate as a bone pain palliative in multiple malignancies. World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2018 [cited 2022 Jun 29 ];17:228-235
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