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What diseases can be treated with skeletal targeted radiotherapy?
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Multiple myeloma: Ho166 bound to a localizing agent that is taken up by bone. The radioactive ho166 irradiates the adjacent bone marrow to destroy the myeloma cells.
Answered 1/10/2015
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Many: Most cancers that metastasize to bone also lymphomas.
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