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Understanding radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT) fact sheet
May 27, 2024
What is radiopharmaceutical therapy?
Despite therapeutic advances, there remains a high unmet need for new and innovative cancer treatments. RPT is uniquely positioned to be both a diagnostic and therapeutic, offering a new modality for patients living with cancer.
What is the goal of RPT research?
RPTs offer a precision approach to patient treatment, delivering radioisotopes to tumors intravenously. By binding to tumor cells, RPTs bring radiation directly to cancer cells where they can induce cancer cell death and spare healthy cells.
- Radioisotope payload is extremely potent
- RPT kills cells regardless of cellular internalization
- RPTs can avoid drug resistance mechanisms (e.g. drug efflux, altered trafficking)
- Precision medicine with RPT imaging allows for better patient selection
- RPTs utilize stable linker thus minimizing premature release of payload