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Comment by Sparkyte

2 years ago

My brain thinking about comic-books and radioactive!

Medicine-man medicine-man, Does whatever drugs can, Gets you dope smells like Coke, Gets you high then you die, Look out, Here comes the medicine-man

Jokes aside what is the efficacy of consuming radioactive drugs? I mean we look at some of the historical medicines people took, gloomy-face. Or are we some how justifying shipments of radioactive objects bought off temu. I imagine if the radioactive stuff is consumed it can sometimes hard to target.

I'm not sure what is your question, but here is a lot of data https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radiopharmaceutic...

IANAMD, but if you rephrase your question I can try to look up.

  • Yeah basically is there some sort of way to target the disease with the radioactive drugs?

    I mean I know some has to be, but it feels kinda like it is the last ditch effort to kill something like with raditation therapy requiring bonemarrow transplant aftward.

    • This article is about cpnecting the radioactive atom to a "sticky" part that only sticks to the cancer, so most of the radiation goes ti the cancer.

      It's not a perfect conection, so other cells may be unlucky. The hard part is that cancer cells are too very similar to the original nornal cells, so picking where to stick is difficult.

      I'm not sure about this article, but sometimes the problem is solved with custom personalized versions of the drug, but in that case the treatment is very expensive.

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