Intratumoral 224Ra-loaded wires spread alpha-emitters inside solid human tumors in athymic mice achieving tumor control

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5315-5321

  Cooks, Tomer ^a   Tal, Michal ^a   Raab, Sefi ^a   Efrati, Margalit ^a   Reitkopf, Shira ^a   Lazarov, Elinor ^a   Etzyoni, Revital ^a   Schmidt, Michael ^a   Arazi, Lior ^a,b   Kelson, Itzhak ^a,b   Keisari, Yona ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Althera Medical   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alpha radiation; Brachytherapy; Radiotherapy; Solid tumor ablation

Indexed keywords

RADIUM 224; RADIUM;

ALPHA EMITTER RADIATION THERAPY; ALPHA RADIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL SURVIVAL; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR GROWTH; ANIMAL; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; COLON TUMOR; DRUG SCREENING; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALPHA PARTICLES; ANIMALS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; XENOGRAFT MODEL ANTITUMOR ASSAYS;

EID: 84872510555     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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