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I'd be willing to have a crack at this if I thought it could help (my background is in nuclear methods for materials characterisation). But I've a feeling that the difference in uptake between cancerous and normal tissue might not be large enough to make this especially useful. Fluorine-18 labelled glucose is used in PET imaging, but not for treatment as far as I'm aware. On the other hand, if a compound can be found that is more selective for the cancer in question, making it radioactive may offer a further improvement.


Isotope labeling for imaging requires only a low isotope purity. One radioactive glucose in a vast sea of normal glucose is just fine, because as I'm sure you know the energies of the emitted particles make a very distinct marker.




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