APPLICATION:
Strontium-89 Chloride Injection is mainly used for treatment of pain caused by metastasis of advanced malignant cancer such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and inhibits the new metastasis of malignant cancers.
Sr-89 is an important treatment for cancer bone metastasis pain. Metastatic bone lesions are zones of high bone mineral turnover, and there is a constant need of calcium supply for the development of the malignancy.
Strontium chloride 89 is a divalent ion, similar to calcium, therefore it is taken up by sites of active osteogenesis. This relieves bone metastatic-driven pain without generating important side effects and it also presents a very little radioprotection concern (Giammarile F, Mognetti T, Resche I: Bone pain palliation with strontium-89 in cancer patients with bone metastases.