Tuesday, May 12, 2009

How is cobalt used in the treatment of cancer

How is cobalt used in the treatment of cancer?
I have a chemistry project and i chose cobalt as my element. in the project, we have to describe some of the important uses of our element. i have researched adn learned that cobalt-60 can be used in the treatment of cancer but could u please give me more info about this? do u have any good websites that could help me answer this question? no sarcastic or rude comments please cause this is for a grade. thanks!
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I did find two good sites for you. http://www.cna.ca/curriculum/cna_nuc_tech/cobalt60-eng.asp?bc=Cobalt-60+Therapy+Unit&pid=Cobalt-60+Therapy+Unit http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1953418/nuclear_medicine_and_cobalt_in_cancer.html
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Cobalt-60 used to be used for external beam radiotherapy to treat cancer, but now there are being replaced by linear accelerators in modern radiation oncology departments. However, it is used in a different way in Gamma Knife which is being used as stereotactic radiosurgery. It is marketed by Elekta. It'll take too long to explain here, so please google the above terms. I think this will be very interesting for your project.



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