Making Radioactive Scorpion Venom Therapy Safe
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy which uses radioactive scorpion venom. The venom of the yellow Israeli scorpion preferentially attaches to the cells of a type of essentially incurable brain cancers known as gliomas. This preference can be exploited to killing brain cancer cells non-invasively. Information about the study will be presented this week at the Health Physics Society meeting in Providence, RI.