Brain scanning in patients with recurrent breast cancer

Journal Article · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976 · Cancer; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-0142(197610)38:4<1574::AID-CNCR2820380421>3.0.CO;2-W· OSTI ID:7333925

Muss, H B; White, D R; Cowan, R J

Brain scans were performed on 116 patients with recurrent breast cancer. Seventy-eight of 79 (98 percent) asymptomatic patients with recurrent disease had negative brain scans. Eleven of 37 (30 percent) patients with central nervous system (CNS) symptoms had scans indicative of intracranial metastases. There was no difference in the distribution of extracranial metastatic disease in patients who had positive brain scans when compared with those who did not. Brain scanning is of value in detecting intracranial metastases in patients with CNS symptoms. Brain scanning seems unnecessary, however, in the staging of patients with recurrent breast cancer who have no CNS symptoms.

• Research Organization: Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC
• OSTI ID: 7333925
• Journal Information: Cancer; (United States), Journal Name: Cancer; (United States) Vol. 38:4; ISSN CANCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BODY
BRAIN
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
GLANDS
MAMMARY GLANDS
METASTASES
NEOPLASMS
NERVOUS SYSTEM
ORGANS
PATIENTS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
SCINTISCANNING
SYMPTOMS