Iodine-131

alike to spot broken bones and dental problems. X-rays and other forms of radiation have a variety of uses in therapy. They are often used to kill cancerous tissues, reduce the size of a tumor, or reduce pain. For example, “radioactive iodine (specifically iodine 131) is frequently used to treat thyroid cancer, a disease that strikes about 11,000 Americans every day.”("Uses of Radiation."). Radiation is also used for the sterilization of medical instruments. By subjecting them to beams of…

radiation sources that release energy by beta-minus decay are Cesium-137, Cobalt-60, Ruthenium-106, and Radium-226. Also, while decaying Iridium-192 releases gamma rays, that can be used for radiation therapy. Other radionuclides used are Cesium-131, Iodine-125, and Palladium-103. What is unique about these radiation sources is that they encounter electron capture. During electron capture, an element from the atom’s inner shell get captured into the nucleus. To fill the place of the captured…

the use of combining a sodium iodide symporter (NIS) molecule with a virus to kill cancer cells. In 2004, Mayo Clinic Researchers coin the treatment term radiovirotherapy after their discovery of administering a radioactive form of iodine (either iodine-123 or iodine-131) with a virus to combat cancer. Mayo Clinic First to show virotherapy is promising against multiple myeloma. The FDA approved Mayo Clinic as the first institution in the United States to manufacture and administer Choline…

The Chernobyl Incident of 1986 April 26, 1986 is the date of the biggest nuclear meltdown in history. While the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a.k.a. the USSR, was in control of Ukraine, it built multiple nuclear power plants. However, these nuclear power plants were not as safe as the ones built in the west-ern countries due to the lack of a safety culture in the USSR. Soviet Russia had boasted how its nuclear power plants were the safest ones in the world in previous press conferences…

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to be made useful in the human body, one that was about a week. Seaborg and his long-time friend and partner Jack Livingwood used targets of tellurium and bombarded it with deuterons and some with neutrons to reveal iodine 131, which had a half-life of eight days. (talk about iodine 131’s importance). In Seaborg’s life, the meaning of this element held major importance due to its aid in his mother’s cure of hyperthyroidism. Seaborg and Jack also discovered cobalt 60, which is also a critical…

We as humans are expending our fossil fuels at an alarming rate. By 2088 we will have completely run out of options for using fossil fuels for electricity (The End of Fossil Fuels). As the resources slowly diminish, people are looking for an alternative source to create electricity for both heat and light. This seems to be particularly true in the United States, where the government wants to not rely on the petroleum from countries in the Middle East. The idea is good, however the focus is less…

played vital role on spreading the Chernobyl. Larger parts of the Ukraine are still receiving seventy five percent of the Chernobyl fallout. Countries around the area started to treat their children with special fluid similar to the iodine pills and also handing out iodine pills. An Increase in cases of thyroid cancer among children and young individuals were reported up to twenty years after the disaster. Some theories included that fetuses in the womb of women exposed to the highest level…

32 million people in Japan are affected by the fallout and radiation from the plant. The Japanese government screened all the people who evacuated and were 18 and under for thyroid cancer because people in this age group absorb more iodine which is what was being released from the plant. In recent years there has been an increase of thyroid cancer amongst children. Most of the people who were exposed have a higher risk of developing thyroid, breast cancer, and leukemia. People who…

But then why do we still use it? I would say that it’s because we haven’t found anything that works better. Radioisotopes (so as cesium-137, Iodine-131, strontium-89, samarium-153, radium-223, copper-67) that cures cancer does this that they are given by mouth as a drink or capsules, or injected into a vein, then what happens is that the cells absorbs the radioisotope and cancer cells absorbs more…