The procedure uses radioactive “tracers” injected into your bloodstream that are viewed under specialized imaging equipment. In the case of detecting birth defects, the scan is performed early in life ...

Comparing quality of life in prostate cancer patients: Continuous vs. intermittent androgen deprivation therapy—A systematic review and meta-analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ...

Since its approval in 2018 by the US Food and Drug Administration, peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) has become a mainstay in the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors. Lutetium-177-DOTATATE, ...

Transaxial slices of baseline positron emission tomography (PET) and fused PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; left) demonstrate a somatostatin receptor-expressing meningioma in the left cavernous ...

Nuclear medicine therapy uses radiopharmaceuticals targeting specific tumours, such as thyroid, lymphomas or bone metastases, delivering radiation to tumorous lesions as part of a therapeutic strategy ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Nuclear medicine plays a very important role in the ...

If you can get rid of circulating tumor cells and tumor cell clusters that detach from a tumor, spreading the disease in the body, cancer is less likely to return. This is the hope behind a ...

γ-emitting isotopes are selected for diagnosis because the radiation they produce can be detected by specific instruments such as positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission computed ...

The Group is led by Prof. Gareth Law and Dr Gianni Vettese is the group's Senior Researcher. The group moved to the University of Helsinki Radiochemistry Unit in late 2018 from the University of ...

After the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, managing environmental radionuclide contamination efficiently has become incredibly important. In light of this, a team of scientists have provided ...