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Why are elements like radium dangerous? A chemist explains radioactivity and its health effects

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Effects of radium-223 dichloride (Ra-223) on risk for hospitalization and health care resource use in the phase 3 ALSYMPCA trial.

Characterization of aggressive interventions within 30 days of death in lung cancer patients at Smilow Cancer Hospital (SCH). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 Quality Care Symposium.
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Effects of radium-223 (Ra-223) with docetaxel versus docetaxel alone on bone biomarkers in patients with bone-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC): A phase I ...

This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Renal & Urology News

Radium-223 Effects on Bone Marrow May Be More Serious Than Previously Reported

In a small study, pancytopenia induced by radium-223—which is used to treat bone metastases in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer— developed more frequently reported in the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Observations on the Late Effects of Internally Deposited Mixtures of Mesothorium and Radium in Twelve Dial Painters

CASE-history data are presented on 12 women who have carried in their skeletons for many years toxicologically interesting burdens of the radioisotopes Ra 226 (radium, or Ra) and Ra 228 (mesothorium, ...