Cancer patients could face ‘significant disruption’ for treatment over radioisotopes shortage
Health Minister Mike Nesbitt said the severe UK-wide shortage of radioisotopes, used for diagnosing cancers and organ scans, ...
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Technetium Is In Short Supply. Here’s How That Affects Public Health
The parent isotope Molybdenum-99 is only produced ... impact of the Tc-99m shortage on public health into perspective, consider some of its uses in general medicine. For example, Tc-99m Sestamibi ...
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Non-HEU Production Technologies for Molybdenum-99 and Technetium-99m
Technetium-99m (99mTc) is used in approximately 85% of diagnostic imaging procedures in nuclear medicine worldwide. Interruptions in the supply of molybdenum (99Mo), which is used to produce 99mTc, ...