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Administration of lower doses of radium-224 to ankylosing spondylitis patients results in no evidence of significant overall detriment

The use of low doses of radium-224 ((224)Ra) chloride for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis was stopped following the discovery that patients treated with it had a higher than control incidence of leukaemia and other cancers. This was so even though the treatment resulted in decreased pain and...

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Autores principales: Priest, Nicholas D., Dauer, Lawrence T., Hoel, David G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232597