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bone scans in 3rd stage breast cancer
by venkalp, Sep 25, 2008 06:55AM
What is the meaning and significance of increased uptake in the bone scan results of a 3rd stage breast cancer patient?
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A bone scan is usually requested if there is/are symptomatic site/s that can be suspicious of a bone involvement of a primary cancer. The increased uptake may mean possible bone metastasis. However, there are false positive results in bone scan. There may be an increased uptake due to degenerative changes, or from a site of previous fracture.
Hope this helps.