[ RadSafe ] Technology to detect radiation

[edmond0033]

Iodine-125 is used in 'seeds' to treat Prostrate Cancer. Thallium-201 is 
used for image scanning.  While not for therapy, it stays in the body for a 
period of days.

Ed Baratta

edmond0033 at comcast.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>
To: <nimmoelsa at netscape.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Technology to detect radiation


> Probably I-131 therapy of hyperthyroidism or cancer
> ablation. This is not a new type of incident. I has
> been going on at the U.S. border for years.
>
> It the statement involved a nuclear medicine study, I
> would assume that it involved a thallium heart study.
>
> --- nimmoelsa at netscape.net wrote:
>
>> Any comments on the form of radiation therapy
>> involved???
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not aware of?all possible breast cancer
>> treatment modes and?I'm finding the description of
>> this incident?puzzling.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Elsa Nimmo
>>
>>
>> At 07:58 PM 8/19/07 -0400, Jaro wrote:
>> >Aviation Week & Space Technology
>> >08/20/2007, page 26
>> >Technology to detect radiation has progressed, says
>> Army Lt. Gen. William
>> >Webster, deputy commander of the U.S. Northern
>> Command. During the most
>> >recent Little League World Series in Williamsport,
>> Pa., detectors picked up
>> >radiation from a fan entering the premises and
>> handheld detectors guided
>> >officials to the fan's location. Upon questioning
>> the fan, officials
>> >discovered she recently underwent radiation therapy
>> for breast cancer and
>> >was still carrying residual amounts of the
>> substance.
>>
>>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "All of the old-timers knew that subprime mortgages were what we called 
> neutron loans --  they killed the people and left the houses. . . .
> "LOUIS S. BARNES, a partner at Boulder West, a mortgage banking firm.
>
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
>
>
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