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Cancer therapy shows promise for nuclear medicine treatment

Targeted therapy with radiopharmaceuticals–radioactive compounds used in nuclear medicine for diagnosis or treatment–has great potential for the treatment of cancer, especially for cancer cells that have migrated from primary tumors to lymph nodes and secondary organs such as bone marrow. These disseminated tumor cells can be difficult to treat with a single targeting agent because there are dramatic differences in the number of targetable receptors on each cell. …