Breast Cancer
Radioactive glucose goes from diagnostic tool to cancer therapy
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 11th, 2003
Research published in the August 21, 2003, issue of Breast Cancer Research suggests that a radioactive molecule widely used to evaluate advanced tumors can kill cancer cells.
Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova and her team from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, examined how radioactive glucose affects breast tumors in mice. They found that, injected at certain doses, the radiation from the glucose killed cancer cells without being toxic to other tissues.
Glucose tagged with radioactive fluorine-18 is commonly used...
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