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Cancer
Data on cancer published by researchers at University of Copenhagen
May 22nd, 2008
According to recent research published in the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, " High-energy gamma probes have recently become commercially available, developed for F-18-FDG probe-guided surgery. The radiation received by the staff in the operating room might limit the use of it, but has never been determined." "We therefore wanted to measure the absorbed staff doses at operations where patients had received a preoperative injection of F-18-FDG. Thrity-four patients with different cancers (breast cancer, melanoma, gastrointestinal cancers, respectively) were operated. At every operation the surgeon was monitored with a TLD tablet on...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-22)
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