Radium Ra 223 Dichloride is a radiopharmaceutical containing the radioisotope radium-223 that emits short range but high linear energy alpha particles. As a cation, radium mimics calicum and binds to hydroxyapatite, which is a bone mineral found in areas of high bone turnover as seen in bone metastases. It was first approved by the FDA in May 2013 and is cur...
Used in patients who have metastatic bone cancer that is symptomatic with no visceral metastases and patients who have prostate cancer that is castration resistant.
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, Seattle, Washington, United States
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
OLV Ziekenhuis Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
The Netherlands Cancer Intitute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rijnstate, Arnhem, Netherlands
Meander Medical Center, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, New York, United States
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
Mayo Clinic - Minnesota, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Commack, New York, United States
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Klinikum der Universität München, München, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Universitätsklinikum "Carl Gustav Carus" der Technischen Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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