Treatment for cancer
You may need to follow some safety procedures when you have treatment with radioisotopes. This is to help protect others from being exposed to the radiation.
There are different types of radioisotopes. Each type may treat a different type of cancer. You can read about these below.
Radioisotope therapy uses radioactive medicines to treat some types of cancer. It is also known as radionuclide therapy. There are different types of radioisotopes. The one you have depends on your type of cancer.
PRRT is a type of radioisotope therapy for some NETs. It uses a radioactive medicine that targets special proteins on the NET’s surface called somatostatin receptors. The medicine attaches to these cells and delivers radiation to destroy them.
131 I-MIBG is a type of radioisotope therapy. It uses radioactive iodine attached to a substance called MIBG to kill the tumour cells.
Radioactive iodine therapy is a type of treatment for thyroid cancer. Read about how it works and radiation safety.
Radium 223 is a type of radioactive medicine. You might have it for cancer that began in the prostate and has spread to the bones.
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