Re: Radioactive "seed" treatment no threat to others- ISOTOPE??

[Bobby Coleman <colemanrl@ornl.gov>]

Not sure about other possible manufacturers, but Theragenics
(http://www.theragenics.com/)
uses Pd-103 in their "TheraSeed" implants.

  Bobby Coleman
  colemanrl@ornl.gov


At 10:45 AM 11/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
> Is anyone familiar with the radionuclide used
> in the specific seeds tested in 
> the following study noted in a post to radsafe? I would think it is
> Iodine 
> based and not Pd-103. Any insights from people closer to this 
> issue?
>
> Stewart Farber
> email: radiumproj@cs.com
> ========================
> In a message dated 11/29/00 11:28:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> sandyfl@earthlink.net writes:
>
> > Radioactive "seed" treatment no threat to others
> >    
> >  CHICAGO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Radioactive "seeds" used
> to treat 
> >  prostate cancer in men pose no radiation risk to their wives
> or 
> >  families, who would absorb more radiation simply living in the
> high-
> >  altitude city of Denver, researchers said on Monday. 
> >  
> >  "We can now tell a woman, 'The amount of radiation you
> will get from 
> >  your husband in one year is less than you would get from
> living in 
> >  Denver for three or four months,'" said Jeff Michalski, a
> radiation 
> >  oncologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
> Louis. 
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