Immunoscintigraphy
Nuclear medicine procedure
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Immunoscintigraphy is a nuclear medicine procedure used to find cancer cells in the body by injecting a radioactively labeled antibody, which binds predominantly to cancer cells and then scanning for concentrations of radioactive emissions.[1][2]
| Immunoscintigraphy | |
|---|---|
| Purpose | detect cancer cells |
Clinical applications
Immunoscintigraphy is performed using a variety of radiopharmaceuticals, for a large range of purposes. Colorectal cancer is one of the most studied areas, with indium-111 or technetium-99m labelled epitopes of the carcinoembryonic antigen.[3] The antibody capromab pendetide reacts with prostate membrane specific antigen (PMSA) and can be labelled with 111In.[4]
