Source: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Date: February 19, 2007
Summary:
Researchers are taking vast amounts of radioactive material and separating the particular atoms they need for therapy in order to create cancer treatment that are tailored to the cells in a patient's body, with each person receiving a unique treatment program. Bearing that principle in mind, researchers can make custom types of radioactive chemicals -- or radioisotopes -- that will attack cancer cells in a more efficient way than current cancer treatments.
