Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan on getting pregnant. You will need to talk about the benefits and risks of using Dimetapp while you are pregnant. Tell your doctor if you are breast-feeding. You will need to talk about any risks to your baby. How is this medicine (Dimetapp) best taken? Use this medicine as ordered by your doctor.
Implanting permanent radioactive seeds in the prostate is a method of treating cancer. The procedure allows a concentrated dose of radiation to be delivered directly to the prostate cancer, limiting damage to other tissue.
include radio-guided occult lesion localization, intraopera-tive ultrasound, and radioactive seed localization (RSL). In this review, we focus on RSL. Radioactive seedâlocalized lumpectomy Concept and technique The radioactive seed is a titanium seed containing 3.7 to 10.7 MBq of 125I, which has a half-life of 60 days and emits 27 keV of gamma radiation.