Abstract: CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF ~(153)Sm-EDTMP THERAPY FOR METASTATIC BONE CANCER Zhang Qing Yang Xiaoqing He Zhilian Wei Xian Xiong Liyue Hu Donglian（Department of Nuclear Medicine,First Affiliated Hospital Jiangxi Medical College,Nanchang 330006）ABSTRACT The therapeutic effect of ~(153)Sm- EDTMP on 24 cases of metastatic bone cancer is analysed.~(153)Sm-EDTMP is injected into the median cubital vein with a radioactive dose 25．9MBq／kg．The result shows that ~(153)Sm-EDTMP relieved pain evidently and the total efficiency is 91．6％. In 10 of thepatients having received reported treatments，40％ of the lesions disappeared or became obscure on radionuclide imaging．It is proved that the treatment of metastatic bone cancer with ~(153)Sm-EDTMP is ofsignificant clinical value.Key words metastatic bone cancer imaging therapy ~(153)Sm-EDTMP ~(99)Tc－MDP