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Russian Scientists Use Nuclear Reactor to Fight Cancer

Isotopes in the medication help to detect lymph nodes, which spread cancer to the rest of the body. This information will allow physicians to more accurately prescribe treatment: there will be no need to cut out the whole organ or its bigger part, but only the exact place where the metastasis is located.

"The drug is really phenomenal, designed for the first time in medical practice," Oleg Dolmatov, director of the Institute of Physics and Technology in the TPU told Izvestia. "We began the development a few years ago, in cooperation with the Tomsk Scientific Research Institute of Oncology, which will begin testing the drug in September. "The product is crucial for the later stages of the disease, when the tumor has already formed, and the disease begins to spread through the body. That's when we need to make a decision about the treatment: to accomplish a surgery without cutting out healthy tissues, or even apply a different method of treatment," Dolmatov explained.