Radioligand Therapy

Targeting Tumors With Precision

Advanced therapy delivers radioactive drug into specific cancer cells, sparing adjacent healthy tissue

Cancer is a disease in which the cells in an area of the body grow uncontrollably, often forming masses, or tumors, that destroy healthy tissue. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy are common treatments for many types of cancer. During surgery, doctors remove the cancerous tumors and a margin of healthy tissue surrounding them. Chemotherapy uses strong medications to kill cancer […]

Targeting Prostate Cancer With Precision

Innovative practice offers ‘compassionate use’ of promising, investigational radiation drug

The prostate is part of the male reproductive system. It is a gland that produces a fluid in semen that nourishes and transports sperm. It also contracts and forces semen through the penis during orgasm. The prostate sits below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The urethra, the tube that carries urine and semen out of the body […]

Targeting Tumors With Precision

Radioligand Therapy Offers New Hope For Patients With Prostate and Neuroendocrine Cancer

In September 2022, Ashok Muthukrishnan, MD, MS, founded Florida Theranostics Cancer Center to provide advanced nuclear medicine therapies for cancer to patients suffering from the disease in the Palm Beaches and other surrounding areas. Theranostics, a blend of therapeutics and diagnostics, involves using the same radioactive molecule for both diagnosing and treating certain cancers. “Hence, the name Florida Theranostics Cancer […]


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