Re: Why sterilize radioactive seeds?

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

Shouldn't prostate seeds be sterilized for the same reasons that the carrier
needles should be, or a scalpel, or any other such instrument? The dose rate
at the surface of the seed is not high enough to keep it in a sterile
condition, if that is the implication of the question.

chris alston

At 11:10  12/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>Dear Listers,
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>With the recent messages about radiation sterilization of meat, I got to
>wondering, "Do we have to sterilize prostate seeds?"
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>Could someone tell what's wrong with that idea?
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>Dr. Robert Herrick
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