Re: Bexxar Treatment

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

There was some discussion about in-patient treatments

at the Health Physics Society meeting in DC this past,

and the BAXXAR people even had a booth to hawk their

product.  



One advantage was that because the I-131 tositumomab

does not behave like NaI, it is retained in the body

longer.  The claim is that if you do a patient

specific calculation, you may be able to release the

patient using the guidance found in Appendix of NUREG

1556, VOl 9 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/v9/



You can find information about BEXXAR at

http://www.bexxar.com/





--- Danny K McClung <danny.mcclung@louisville.edu>

wrote:



> Greetings from The 'Ville

> 

> I am soliciting experiences of those of you who may

> have had to keep a

> Bexxar patient in your medical facility as an

> inpatient. Did you find

> the I-131 labeled monoclonal antibody (I-131

> Tositumomab) behaved much

> differently than I-131 NaI? How did the room release

> go following

> patient discharge? Thanks in advance for your

> contributions. -Dan

> 

> GO CARDS!

> 

> Danny K. McClung, RRPT

> Health Physicist/Asst. RSO

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> University of Louisville

> Health Sciences Center

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





	

		

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