Scientists claim that a new nuclear medicine therapy could completely cure blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The therapy uses a radioimmunotherapy drug that targets and kills cancer cells with a radioactive isotope. The therapy was tested in mice and showed remarkable results, extending their survival by more than 200 days.

#BloodCancer #NuclearMedicine #Radioimmunotherapy

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-nuclear-medicine-therapy-could-26761410

Congratulations to this multidisciplinary research team co-lead by UBC Medicine's François Bénard and #SFUChemistry assistant professor Caterina Ramogida! They been awarded over $23 million in federal funding to develop new #radiopharmaceuticals to treat many different kinds of cancers, including end-stage metastatic cancers with few treatment options. https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/nuclear-medicine-can-cure-cancer-and-canadian-researchers-are-stepping-up-the-fight/ #oncology #nuclearmedicine #cancer

From 29 Mar: Cardinal Health Inc is exploring a potential sale of its nuclear medicine unit as part of a larger review of its business, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. - https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/cardinal-health-explores-sale-nuclear-medicine-unit-bloomberg-news-2023-03-28/ #healthcare #nuclearmedicine #business

Check out this press release covering a paper published by prof. Valentina Garibotto's group from the HUG that I had the pleasure to co-author 🙃

It shows that the early frames of the Amyloid-PET can be used as a proxy of brain metabolism in a similar way to the FDG-PET. This dual use of Amyloid-PET has potential to cut costs and reduce patient's exposure to radiotracers.

#alzheimers #nuclearmedicine #neuroscience

https://www.snmmi.org/NewsPublications/NewsDetail.aspx?ItemNumber=43385

RT @CarlosUribeM@twitter.com

Are you a superstar #physicist passionate for cancer care and looking forward to shaping the future of #theranostics? Consider applying to this #opportunity and help us make BC Cancer's #nuclearmedicine physics provincial operations the one every patient…https://lnkd.in/ghYmZbd7

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarlosUribeM/status/1615050015373922304

Nice interview on Dr. Song's thoughts re #theranostics:

✅focus on existing tumor targets
✅dev biomolecules specific to these targets
✅test in human trials

He is excited about ☢️Ac-dotatate.

@lisabodei@twitter.com @CzerninJohannes@twitter.com

RT @JournalofNucMed@twitter.com

Industry invests in #theranostics: a discussion with Dr. Ken Song. http://ow.ly/bBbs50Mogly

#NuclearMedicine #JNuclMed @lisabodei@twitter.com @ksong@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JournalofNucMed/status/1615046735025299457

RT @SNM_MI@twitter.com

Dr. Vasken Dilsizian and cancer survivor Josh Mailman discuss new #NuclearMedicine treatments for cancer: "It's a complete game-changer—It's almost like sending a smart bomb that detects cancer cells with precision and destroys them." https://youtu.be/lDwWeMpW3L8 #Theranostics

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SNM_MI/status/1613898984501792770

Hello former #medtwitter and now #medmastodon

I am a trained ☢️ #radiochemist 🧪 who wants to stay on top of ☢️ #nucmed 💉🩺

So anybody who works with #PET #SPECT #PRRT #TRT or and especially #TAT feel free to reach out and discuss 💪☺️

So I am very excited to be part of a new #nuclearmedicine network here 🤗

Current #BCpublichealth wait times for these 2 #medical diagnostics services in #VictoriaBC:

#BoneDensity #nuclearmedicine imaging - 9 months.
#BCAllergy specialist referral for testing - 8 months.

I'm headed to allergy specialist this morning. Hopefully will find out why flu shots sent me to ER twice in the past.