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Tell me a radioactive isotope used in medicine?
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Several: Several include technitium 99m and Iodine 131 which decay and provide diagnostic and therpeutic activity. Others are also used depending upon the need.
Answered 6/1/2014
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I 131: Iodine 131 is used in the treatment of thyroid cancer. Technetium 99 is used to evaluate cardiac vessels and is probably the most commonly used radioisotope in medicine. Strontium 89 and samarium are used in the treatment of cancer related bone pain. There are many more.less commonly used agents.
Answered 10/6/2014
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