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I remember my senior advisor student tellimg me a story how she went to industrial lab internship in a hospital with these things.
They had their own little collider there. They made synthetic radioactive cocaine to study something in the brain.
They didn't measure the drug dosage, they just filled the syringe and waited holding it near a radiation counter for radiation to drop to desired level.
Once she spilled something and dipped her hand in it. She was told to hold a hand away rfom the body for a day - on a train ride home, in shower, in sleep - to protect internal organs. Next day, radiation was gone, down to natural level.
These things are amazing.
"synthetic radioactive cocaine" is a hell of a phrase.
Many drugs are made as radiochemicals to see how they distribute in the body. It's mostly the liver. Some drugs work specifically as radiochemicals to bring ionizing radiation to tumors to kill them.
https://fusionpharma.com/targeted-alpha-therapeutics/
That poor poor liver, taking the brunt of our misdeeds.
To be fair, though, that's its literal raison d'être.
A liver complaining about dealing with harmful stuff would be like a dung beetle complaining about having to roll shit around 🤷