Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Radiotherapy
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2021) | Viewed by 32467
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is related to recent developments in the field of radiopharmaceutical chemistry with a special emphasis on radiotherapy.
As part of their clinical care, physicians recommend radiation therapy as primary, neo-adjuvant, adjuvant, or palliative treatments to more than half of all cancer patients. Radiation therapy uses the intense energy associated with ionizing radiation to destroy cancerous cells. This radiation can be administered from an external source, through brachytherapy, or by using the systemic circulation to deliver therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, which are designed to exploit dysregulated physiological processes and protein overexpression that cancer cells use to survive. Recently, several systemic radiotherapies have demonstrated efficacy in the clinic or in clinical trials; these successes have renewed interest in their development and integration into precision medicine strategies for cancer care. This Special Issue seeks to highlight the creative collaborations among researchers in the physical, biological, and health sciences that are conducting innovative preclinical or clinical radiotherapy research. All researchers working in the field are cordially invited to contribute original research papers or reviews to this Special Issue of Molecules.
Dr. Thaddeus J. Wadas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Production and radiochemistry
- Dosimetry
- Auger therapy
- Beta minus (β-) therapy
- Alpha particle (α2+) therapy
- Theranostic pairs
- Image guided radiotherapy
- Radiotherapy clinical trials
- Regulatory aspects relating to radiotherapy
- Radionuclide generators