Highlights of the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Barcelona 1999. Scientific-based functional imaging and therapy for the next millenium

Nuclear medicine is showing a tendency to increase its importance in the fields of oncoloy and therapy at the end of this century. The author of this review has tried to reflect this trend in guiding the reader through the highlights of this congress. For the first time it has been demonstrated that nuclear medicine therapeutic techniques have the potential to cure advanced stages of cancer, even in patients in whom chemotherapy or radiation is no longer an option. (orig.)