Unbeknownst to him, the radium had perforated the bone cells and stripped them of calcium. It had, like a little machine gun, shredded the collagen inside the bone and left it as little more than ...

PARP inhibitors demonstrate synergy with radiation, so investigators tested the efficacy and safety of olaparib plus radium-223 in patients with mCRPC and bone metastases in a phase 2 trial.

In an interview, Rana McKay, MD, discusses findings from the COMRADE trial evaluating olaparib plus radium-223 in prostate ...

Source: Getty Images Radium-223, enzalutamide, and a bone-protecting agent may be a new treatment option for mCRPC patients with bone metastases, according to Silke Gillessen, MD. Radium-223 ...

His brain was abscessed. Distributed through his bones, calculated Dr. Frederick Bonner Flinn of Columbia University, were 36 micrograms of radium. Ten micrograms is a fatal quantity. William J.

Xofigo (radium RA 223 dichloride) is commonly used for prostate cancer that is no longer responding to hormone treatments and has spread to a bone in your body but has not spread to any other areas.

Later, under X rays because his joints still creaked, his bones showed puzzling deposits. At M.I.T., Dr. Evans and colleagues found that he still had 25 times the calculated safe dose of radium in ...

The radium bound to their bones like its chemical cousin, calcium, injuring, disfiguring and killing many of the 2,000 workers estimated to have been employed at peak. The radium industry ...

Annual Meeting New data from two clinical trials evaluating XOFIGO® (radium-223 dichloride) in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with bone metastases will be ...

Radium 223 is a type of internal radiotherapy treatment. Internal radiotherapy means giving radiotherapy to the cancer from inside the body. You might have it for cancer that began in the prostate and ...