Friday Grand Rounds are back, a day early because Jeff just flew in and can't wait to tell us all about Biomarkers.
Oncology targets, strategies, cancer drug development and personalized medicine
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Seeking Moby Dick Mo-99
Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) is the most used radioactive tracer with over 30 million tests per year done all over the world. When tagged to a pharmaceutical or biological marker, it helps evaluate, diagnose or manage cancer spread, blood flow and cardiac function; brain activity and thyroid disease; and detect osseous metastasis, fractures and infections (bone scan). . . Tc-99m is a metastable isotope of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). . . Lately, Tc-99m supply chain has come under stress.
(Read the rest of the article and what is being done about the this radiotracer's shortage at maiblog)
(Picture from: Science. 2011 Jan 21;331(6015):277)
Service, R. (2011). Scrambling to Close the Isotope Gap Science, 331 (6015), 277-279 DOI: 10.1126/science.331.6015.277
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