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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Radium-223 in mCRPC showed long-term favorable safety, low second primary malignancies/fracture rates, and consistent overall ...

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 ...