• Radium-223 (223Ra, Ra-223) is an isotope of radium with an 11.4-day half-life. It was discovered in 1905 by T. Godlewski, a Polish chemist from Kraków...
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    Radium chloride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula RaCl2. It is a radium salt of hydrogen chloride. It was the first radium compound isolated...
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    antigen. Radium-223 is an alpha emitter that is naturally attracted to the bone because it is a calcium mimetic. Radium-223 (as radium-223 dichloride)...
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    Radiopharmaceuticals, or medicinal radiocompounds, are a group of pharmaceutical drugs containing radioactive isotopes. Radiopharmaceuticals can be used...
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  • Francium (redirect from Francium 223)
    of 8.1 hours. All isotopes of francium decay into astatine, radium, or radon. Francium-223 also has a shorter half-life than the longest-lived isotope...
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  • irradiate surrounding tissue, though this can be useful for radiotherapy – radium-223 is used in this way. Stable bone seekers can also be harmful: excessive...
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  • isotope of radium is 226Ra with a half-life of 1600 years. 226Ra occurs in the decay chain of 238U (often referred to as the radium series). Radium has 34...
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    2013). "Alpha emitter radium-223 and survival in metastatic prostate cancer". The New England Journal of Medicine. 369 (3): 213–223. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1213755...
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  • cells. Xofigo, a radioligand therapy that was FDA approved in 2013, uses Radium-223 dichloride as the radioisotope, but its ligand varies from Pluvicto. Pluvicto...
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    sulfate). The longest lived isotope of radium is radium-226 with a half-life of 1600 years; it along with radium-223, -224, and -228 occur naturally in the...
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    Xarelto (rivaroxaban), Eylea (aflibercept), Stivarga (regorafenib), Xofigo (radium-223), and Adempas (riociguat).: 93  Top-selling products as of 2014 included:...
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    the chamber reduce the current, triggering the smoke detector's alarm. Radium-223 is also an alpha emitter. It is used in the treatment of skeletal metastases...
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  • return home. Radium-223 chloride, strontium-89 chloride and samarium-153 EDTMP are used to treat secondary cancer in the bones. Radium and strontium...
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    Further clinical trials of other drugs are underway. Isotopes of actinium Radium-223 Audi, G.; Kondev, F. G.; Wang, M.; Huang, W. J.; Naimi, S. (2017). "The...
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    Minute traces of lead-209 arise from the very rare cluster decay of radium-223, one of the daughter products of natural uranium-235, and the decay chain...
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    radioactive compounds that disproportionately accumulate in bone, like radium-223 and samarium-153-EDTMP, which help reduce the size of bone tumors. Similarly...
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  • 2013). "Alpha Emitter Radium-223 and Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer". New England Journal of Medicine. 369 (3): 213–223. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1213755...
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    Radium bromide is the bromide salt of radium, with the formula RaBr2. It is produced during the process of separating radium from uranium ore. This inorganic...
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  • and a decrease in tumour markers. Isotopes of strontium Alpharadin, radium-223 with similar clinical use Delacroix, D.; Guerre, J. P.; Leblanc, P.; Hickman...
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  • lead-197m2 1.15 americium-241m 1.2 radium-215m2 1.39 bismuth-211m 1.4 uranium-222 1.4 radium-217 1.63 neptunium-223 2.15 radium-210m 2.24 radon-215 2.30 bismuth-217m...
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  • ALGETA and raised $41 million. Algeta’s lead product Xofigo (radium Ra 223 dichloride, radium-223, previously called Alpharadin) is a radiotherapeutic drug...
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    radio-labelled anti-CD20 antibodies (e.g. Bexxar) for treating lymphoma, Radium-223 for treating bone metastases, Lutetium-177 DOTATATE for treating neuroendocrine...
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    research on radium. Mrs. William Brown Meloney, after interviewing Curie, created a Marie Curie Radium Fund and raised money to buy radium, publicising...
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    nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of...
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    (denosumab) - FDA Approved Provenge (sipuleucel-T) - FDA Approved Xofigo (Radium-223 dichloride) – FDA Approved supported research of 97 drugs in Phase I or...
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    Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity. Radon occurs naturally as a result of decay of radioactive elements in soil...
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    heavy-ion radioactivity was that of a 30-MeV, carbon-14 emission from radium-223 by H.J. Rose and G.A. Jones in 1984. — Encyclopædia Britannica, Usually...
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  • radon gas. Because of such instability, radium is luminescent, glowing a faint blue. Radium, in the form of radium chloride, was discovered by Marie and...
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  • therapy, for instance the clinical development of Alpharadin, based on Radium-223; the tumor biology and prognostic impact of micro-metastases in bone-marrow...
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    Bismuth (redirect from Radium E)
    occur within the natural radioactive disintegration chains of actinium, radium, thorium, and neptunium, and more have been synthesized experimentally....
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