Curium, a world leader in nuclear medicine, announced today that it has expanded its existing partnership with Institute of Isotopes Co. Ltd. (Izotop) to make Iodine-131 diagnostic capsules available ...

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 ...

Potential spermatozoa damage in male patients is also allowed for in the case of iodine-131. Many radionuclides used in radiopharmaceuticals can appear in the breast milk of a nursing mother. This ...

The patients were randomized to receive either no radioiodine or radioiodine (1.1 GBq [30 mCi] of iodine-131 after recombinant human thyrotropin–stimulating hormone), following the thyroidectomy.

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLRB), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, ...

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 ...

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 ...