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IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

AEOI Chief: Medicine produced from heavy water derivatives

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Dec 28, 2022

Tehran, IRNA -- Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Eslami said that medicines are produced from heavy water derivatives.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Eslami said that the production of drugs with heavy water derivatives is also on the agenda of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.

The only Iranian company in the field of radiopharmaceutical production in the world is sanctioned, he said adding that it shows that people's lives have no value for sanctioners.

Production of items in the treatment sector is active; he said stressing that radiopharmaceuticals have diagnostic and therapeutic functions, the diagnostic section was opened last week.

With regard to treatment, it directly hits cell therapy and destroys it without harming the patient, he said.

Chemotherapy has side effects for cancer patients, so radiotherapy is better in this regard, he stated.

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