"Radium" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A radioactive element of the alkaline earth series of metals. It has the atomic symbol Ra and atomic number 88. Radium is the product of the disintegration of URANIUM and is present in pitchblende and all ores containing uranium. It is used clinically as a source of beta and gamma-rays in radiotherapy, particularly BRACHYTHERAPY.
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D011883
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.268.271.770 D01.268.552.775 D01.268.556.775 D01.496.749.305.770 D01.552.539.745 D01.552.544.775
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| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Radium" by people in Profiles.
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[Management of mCRPC patients treated with 223Radium-dicloride in the scenario of the COVID-19 outbreak]. Rev Esp Med Nucl Imagen Mol (Engl Ed). 2020 Nov-Dec; 39(6):391-392.
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The Evolving Systemic Treatment Landscape for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer. Drugs. 2019 Mar; 79(4):381-400.
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Therapeutic options for first-line metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: Suggestions for clinical practise in the CHAARTED and LATITUDE era. Cancer Treat Rev. 2019 Mar; 74:35-42.
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Circulating Tumor Cells as a Biomarker of Survival and Response to Radium-223 Therapy: Experience in a Cohort of Patients With Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Clin Genitourin Cancer. 2018 12; 16(6):e1133-e1139.
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Bone radionuclide therapy and increased survival with radium-223 is the way to go for nuclear medicine: the offer that oncologists cannot refuse. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018 05; 45(5):822-823.
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The difficult management of radio-incuced head and neck sarcomas. Oral Oncol. 2017 10; 73:173-174.