RE: Why sterilize radioactive seeds?

["Howe, John" <Howej@NMRIPO.NMRI.NNMC.NAVY.MIL>]

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> From: 	Chris Alston[SMTP:alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu]
> Sent: 	Monday, December 15, 1997 8:44 AM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Why sterilize radioactive seeds?
> 
> 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?"
> >
> >Could someone tell what's wrong with that idea?
> >
> >
> >Dr. Robert Herrick
> >robertherrick@mindspring.com
> >
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