# Nuclide record flare-phenomenon (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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<https://nuclide.cc/terms/flare-phenomenon/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "flare-phenomenon" ;
  schema:name "Flare phenomenon"@en ;
  schema:description "Right after some cancer treatments start working, a scan can briefly look worse before it looks better, because healing bone or an early immune response makes lesions light up more, not because the cancer has actually grown. Doctors wait and repeat the scan before deciding treatment has failed."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/flare-phenomenon/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7907710/>, <https://radiopaedia.org/articles/flare-phenomenon-bone-scintigraphy?lang=us>, <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12149-024-01914-8> ;
  nuclide:tag "response assessment", "bone imaging", "prostate cancer" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/bone-metastases/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/psa-kinetics/>, <https://nuclide.cc/indications/prostate-mcrpc/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/psma-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/radium-223/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/complete-response-term/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ra-223/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/sm-153/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/sr-89/> .