Replies to post #49746 on Biotech Values

[bobrmd]

Listen Ive administered and did research on radiolabeled antibodies. I deliver I131 for thyroid cance and graves disease. You are confusing medical use with nuclear powerplant issues. You are dead wrong about the volatility in a meical setting. The Nrc would never allow patients to go home after administering 200 mCi of iodine and alow them to piss in their toilets to boot. If you cant learn from what im saying or like a lot of other posters cant admit it, leave it up to the board to decide reality.

Those regs u site sound scary to a lay person but the precautions are designed to minimize exposure to the delivery personel. READ UP ON ALARA and you will begin to understand that the administration of any radioisotope no matter how low the dose or energy, requires those procedures.

PS I chair the radiation safety committee at our hospital and deliver bexar too.

[quantumdot]

Radio-labeling etc. Jellybean, it is quite clear to me (and I suspect to many other readers of this thread) that you are trying to take part in a debate with a practicing expert by using Google as your sole reference. It is clear that bobrmd works in this field and has PRACTICAL, CLINICAL experience with these radiolabeled drugs and patients. It is likewise clear that you do not have this knowledge or experience and are trying to prolong an argument simply for the sake of it.

There is a clear tendency by several apparently educated individuals on this board to believe that they know how things work because they have read a paper and think they understand the biology or physics. In medicine, like many professions, REAL WORLD experience trumps your googling. Enough already! Why not just shut up and learn something?