One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and ...

The procedure uses radioactive “tracers” injected into your bloodstream that are viewed under specialized imaging equipment. In the case of detecting birth defects, the scan is performed early in life ...

A secondary analysis of the phase III VISION trial presented at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Genitourinary Cancers Symposium found that adding androgen receptor pathway ...

The Group is led by Prof. Gareth Law and Dr Gianni Vettese is the group's Senior Researcher. The group moved to the University of Helsinki Radiochemistry Unit in late 2018 from the University of ...

After the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, managing environmental radionuclide contamination efficiently has become incredibly important. In light of this, a team of scientists have provided ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Nuclear medicine plays a very important role in the ...

Since its approval in 2018 by the US Food and Drug Administration, peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has become a mainstay in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors. Lutetium-177-DOTATATE, ...

Nuclear medicine therapy uses radiopharmaceuticals targeting specific tumours, such as thyroid, lymphomas or bone metastases, delivering radiation to tumorous lesions as part of a therapeutic strategy ...

Bayer has agreed to buy Noria Therapeutics and its subsidiary PSMA Therapeutics, adding to its pipeline of radionuclide drugs for cancer as sales of its lead product in the category – Xofigo – ...

γ-emitting isotopes are selected for diagnosis because the radiation they produce can be detected by specific instruments such as positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission computed ...