Treatment of metastatic prostate cancer with Lutetium-177

End-stage prostate cancer, even with multiple metastases, can also be treated very successfully with a chance of cure. This has been made possible by the introduction of radiotherapy into clinical practice. Doctors inject a radioactive substance into the patient's body, which accumulates in the cancer cells and destroys them. In most patients, the tumors shrink [...]

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