Three Nuclear Medicine diagnostic procedures and breast cancer mortality in women. A population-analysis in Taiwan based upon National Health Insurance database.
@article{Hung2019ThreeNM,
title={Three Nuclear Medicine diagnostic procedures and breast cancer mortality in women. A population-analysis in Taiwan based upon National Health Insurance database.},
author={Mao Chin Hung and Y. Huang},
journal={Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine},
year={2019}
}OBJECTIVE
To investigate the correlation between the utilization of nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures and the mortality of women with breast cancer.
SUBJECTS AND METHODS
Based on the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), we studied female breast cancer patients in 2012 who underwent whole-body bone scan, lymphoscintigraphy, or fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) for possibly managing breast cancer metastases. The… CONTINUE READING
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