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Medical Isotopes Used In Treatment of Disease

Medical Isotopes Used In Treatment of Disease. By: Rhoda Lam Michelle Liu. Iodine-125 . The BRACHYSOURCE® iodine-125 implant . Half-Life: 59.4 days Properties: heavy, grayish-black, metallic-looking material Used in the treatment of prostate cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer

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Medical Isotopes Used In Treatment of Disease

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  1. Medical Isotopes Used In Treatment of Disease By: Rhoda Lam Michelle Liu

  2. Iodine-125 The BRACHYSOURCE® iodine-125 implant • Half-Life: 59.4 days • Properties: heavy, grayish-black, metallic-looking material • Used in the treatment of prostate cancer, lung cancer, brain cancer • A low energy gamma emitter; maximum energies of 35 keV

  3. Iodine-131 • Half-life : 8.02 days • Properties: Nonmetallic, purplish-black crystalline solid • Used in brachytherapy or short-range therapy to treat thyroid cancer • Helps treat non-malignant thyroid disorders • Used due to its short half-life and useful beta emission

  4. Strontium-89 & Samarium-153 • Strontium-89 Half-life: 50 days • Stontium-89 Properties: Silvery metal that rapidly turns yellowish in air • Samarium-153 Half-life: 46.3 hours (1.93days) • Samarium-153 Properties: Reactive, yellowish metal • Used to provide pain relief for metastatic bone disease(cancers that have spread from the original tumor to the bone) • Samarium-153 is used due to its short half-life

  5. Phosphorus-32 • Half-life: 14.29 days • Properties: Reactive • -White phosphorus: waxy, transparent solid • -Red phosphorus: red powder • -Black phosphorus: looks like graphite powder • Used to control a disease called 'Polycythemia vera', where an excess of red blood cells are produced by the bone marrow. • Used due to its short half-life Red phosphorus powder

  6. Palladium-103 • Half-Life: 16.99 days • Used to manufacture brachytherapy permanent implant seeds • The seeds are primarily used for the treatment of early stage prostate cancer • Used due to its short half-life andlow energy emission

  7. Bibliography http://www.chemistryexplained.com/elements/P-T/Samarium.html http://www.nordion.com/our_products/medical_isotopes_iodine125.asp http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/radionuclides/technetium.html http://bardmedical.com/Iodine125 http://iodine-125.com/ http://www.cancer.gov/Common/PopUps/popDefinition.aspx?id=CDR000045874&version=Patient&language=English http://www.sciencegateway.org/isotope/phosp32.html http://216.55.99.51/clinical/palliative/strontium.html http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/radionuclides/iodine.html https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:OBEppGQn3E4J:www.nordion.com/documents/products/Pd-103_Can.pdf+&hl=zh-CN&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESinWz5oLD0hbfWSK5BEJFX7uU-u3QaZdRFtmEccCBXRGjz7IhmeHvUHIU_a3jWv_1O8c-A6t7WDcxR1oluExqJld3Scwknc0cEv_4EcKcXjFZomyjPdz2Vjv3qs1EzTI8oo5i0a&sig=AHIEtbS7qibFT4KMOyUPKI1L06e3oUKVtw

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