Notes on Cases Treated with Radium

Radium: Its Therapeutic Uses in General Practice

This little book gives a short account of cases treated by the author with radium in the hope that it may draw the attention of the general practitioner and student to the conditions in which this valuable therapeutic agent may be of use. The first portion of the work is devoted to a short summary of the physical problems connected with radium, including apparatus, screening, methods of applica...

Notes on the Effects and Use of Radium

Irish Masters of Medicine

recurring after a short time, was successfully treated by radium. It is interesting to note in the present series (Cases 3 anid 4), the dlifference in response to radium of two growths which histologically are very similar. Generally it would seem if the situation of the growth is such that it (loes not reaclily permit of removal of a wedge of normal tissue together with the tumour, surgical in...

Utility of F-18 FDG PET/CT for Detection of Bone Marrow Metastases in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Radium-223

A 76-year-old man with symptomatic bone metastases from castrationresistant prostate cancer underwent Radium-223-dichloride (Ra-223) therapy. Before Ra-223 therapy, he had normal peripheral blood cell counts. Ra-223 therapy relieved his shoulder and low back pain. The elevation of the serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA), doubling every month during Ra-223 therapy, suggested a PSA flare or rel...

Ionizing radiation, part 2: some internally deposited radionuclides. Views and expert opinions of an IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans. Lyon, 14-21 June 2000.

2.2.2 (a) (ii) – 172 In first paragraph, last line, replace 222 Ra with 224 RA. 2.2.2 (b) (ii) – 173 In last paragraph, line 9, replace: [The Working Group noted that four cases of lymphoid leukaemia were found among people treated with radium, consisting of one acute and three chronic dysplastic leukaemias.] with: [The Working Group noted that four cases of lymphoid leukaemia were found among ...