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Ottawa to spend $6M seeking medical isotope alternatives

Approval for alternative types of medical isotopes such as thallium for cardiac scans and sodium fluoride for bone scans has also been been sped up, Aglukkaq said.”Although the next month is going to be challenging with Petten down as well, I believe that the increasing use of those two alternatives really does give us a significant step up in coping with the need to help our patients,” said Dr. Sandy McEwan, the federal government’s new special adviser on medical isotopes.Also on Tuesday, Ontario’s Health Ministry announced it will pay $1.4 million in one-time funding to produce sodium fluoride as an alternative diagnostic procedure for about 2,000 cancer patients.

Ottawa to spend $6M seeking medical isotope alternatives

June 17, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, environment | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive