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Radio-antibody & radio-ADC

Attaching a radioactive atom to an antibody, so an ADC's targeting is used to deliver radiation instead of chemotherapy.

90Y-ibritumomab (Zevalin) and 131I-tositumomab proved the concept in lymphoma but were commercially abandoned. Renewed interest: 225Ac-labelled antibodies to PSMA (J591), CD33 (lintuzumab), DLL3, HER2, and 177Lu-labelled antibodies. Long antibody half-life is both a dosimetry advantage and a marrow-toxicity problem; pretargeting and fragment approaches address it.

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Chelated Lu-177 / Ac-225 · Antigen-positive cell · Radiation, not chemistry

How it works

A chelator-conjugated antibody or fragment carries 177Lu, 225Ac, 212Pb, or 131I.

Strengths
  • Any ADC target becomes a radiation target
  • Bystander crossfire independent of payload chemistry
Limitations
  • Marrow dose from circulating antibody
  • Manufacturing complexity

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Literature trend155 papers in the last 12 months+17% vs prior 12How this is computed
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Query for this technology: (TITLE:"radioimmunotherapy" OR ABSTRACT:"radioimmunotherapy" OR TITLE:"radioimmunoconjugate" OR ABSTRACT:"radioimmunoconjugate" OR TITLE:"radiolabeled antibody" OR ABSTRACT:"radiolabeled antibody") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about Radio-antibody & radio-ADC, not a curated reading list.

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