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Article: IsoRay Announces World's First Cesium-131 Lung Implants Performed at Cornell Medical Center.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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IsoRay, Inc. (Amex: ISR) announced that starting on August 12, 2009, Dr. Bhupesh Parashar from the Department of Radiation Oncology, and Dr. Nasser Altorki of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first Cesium-131 lung implants (see also IsoRay, Inc.).
Four Cesium-131 lung implants were performed at Weill Cornell Medical Center utilizing a wedge resection technique as a part of the surgical treatment.
Cesium-131 was chosen based on the short half life and higher dose rate. The short half life allows 99.8% of the treatment dose to be delivered by the time the sutures and mesh dissolve unlike other ...