Re: RADSAFE digest 3383

[carol marcus <csmarcus@ucla.edu>]

At 09:08 AM 8/23/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Scott Hudson wrote:
>
>"A couple additions to Dave's excellent list:
>
>Hospital:	Gd-153 (in Quadramet, a replacement for Sr-89 palliative
>bone therapy)
>		F-18 (a "long-half-life" positron emitter, as FDG)
>Rad Therapy:Pd-103 (prostate implants, seeds)
>
>Thanks for doing most of the work, Dave!"
>
>SCOTT HUDSON	scott.hudson@cpe.amedd.army.mil
>Health Physicist
>Med - NBC Program Manager
>CHPPM-EUR
>
>
>Actually, the Gd-153 is used in sealed line sources for bone density 
>scanners.  
>
>Quadramet (R) uses Sm-153 to treat pain from cancer that has 
>metastasized to the bone.
>
>Also, Y-90 is being used in a number of clinical trials for cancer 
>treatment.
>
>In the nuclear medicine field, the Mo-99 is never used in patients.  It is 
>incorporated into a technetium generator that supplies Tc-99m for a 
>variety of nuclear med scans.  Mo/Tc is probably the largest single 
>radionuclide (activity-wise and probably in terms of the number of
>procedures) in nuc med.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>John R. Laferriere, CHP
>DuPont Pharmaceuticals Co.
>Medical Imaging Division
>john.r.laferriere@dupontpharma.com
>(978) 671-8316   fax (978) 671-8149
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Dear Radsafers:

Quadramet contains Sm-153, not Gd-153.  

Ciao, Carol

Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
<csmarcus@ucla.edu>

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