Curium, a world leader in nuclear medicine, announced today that it has expanded its existing partnership with Institute of ...

Despite a relative xerostomia caused by the 131 I and secondary infection ... Patient received radioactive iodine therapy 17 months ago and has recently developed obstructive parotid symptomatology.

In most cases, this is the most important safety issue. Once excretion is effectively complete, the external radiation will decline only with the effective half-life, which for iodine-131 is about 8 ...

Radionuclide therapy is changing dynamically. Monoclonal antibody therapies for non-Hodgkins lymphoma using iodine-131; or imaging with indium-111, followed with yttrium-90 for the therapy are the ...

Cobalt-60 Used in medicine to treat cancer. Gamma rays can be focused on tumors. Iodine-131 Used to treat thyroid gland (in the neck). If the gland is enlarged, iodine-131 can be absorbed and will ...

ALTHOUGH much of the progress in thyroid hormone biochemistry is due to the use of thyroxine and 3 : 5 : 3′-triiodothyronine labelled with iodine-131, the high metabolic lability of the iodine ...

Ac-225, along with beta particle-emitting isotopes such as iodine-131 and lutetium-177, can cause cell death by producing double-strand DNA breaks, for which there is no known resistance or repair ...

Ciril Faia, CEO SPECT Europe for Curium commented, "We are delighted with the expansion of our partnership with Izotop which will enable Curium to offer Iodine-131 solutions for both diagnostic ...