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 ...

A doctor and a technologist will come from the Department of Nuclear Medicine to administer the therapy dose. The doctor will check certain details (such as the date of surgery, and the result of any ...

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 ...

thereby marking the dawn of nuclear medicine. In addition to using phosphorus-32 to treat leukaemia, John and his team also used iodine-131 to study thyroid glands. They investigated the ...