Prostate cancer will be treated with domestic micro sources
Rusnano Portfolio Company "Bebig"
started the production of micro sources for the treatment of prostate cancer
Rusnano Press Service
In the city of Dubna, Moscow region, the Rusnano portfolio company Bebig LLC has launched the production of full-cycle micro sources for low-dose brachytherapy using the isotope iodine-125.
The project is a joint venture of the European Eckert Group of companies & Ziegler BEBIG and Rusnano. The total investment in the project amounted to 688 million rubles, including co-financing of Rusnano in the amount of 496 million rubles.
Brachytherapy is a modern high–tech type of radiotherapy aimed, among other things, at the treatment of prostate cancer. Brachytherapy can significantly minimize the side effects characteristic of remote radiotherapy: isotopes used for treatment are delivered directly to the tumor without affecting adjacent tissues and organs.
Today, prostate cancer is among the most common oncological diseases among Russian men: about 14 thousand Russians are diagnosed with it every year. At the same time, the mortality rate in the first year from the moment of diagnosis is 10.3%. For patients with stage I and II cancer, brachytherapy is a particularly gentle alternative to surgery and external irradiation.
Despite the fact that brachytherapy has been actively used in world practice in recent years – this procedure is successfully used in 800 medical centers in the USA and Western Europe – in Russia this method is still far from widespread.
The Rusnano project promotes import substitution in the field of high-tech medical products. Until recently, micro sources supplied by Bebig LLC were manufactured in Germany by Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG. Since 2005, more than seven thousand operations have been performed with their help in 21 medical centers in Russia. The complex built in Dubna is a unique and the only production of micro-sources for full-cycle brachytherapy in Russia and will allow the Bebig company to switch to using domestic products in the near future.
Micro sources are a titanium capsule that provides excellent biocompatibility and ultrasound imaging. Inside it is a gold wire – an X-ray marker and the radionuclide iodine-125 in the form of silver iodide.
Drawing from the website bebig.ru – VM
Modern high-tech production processes are carried out in clean rooms that are certified according to the ISO 8 category (GOST R ISO 14644). Isotopes are obtained at the Research Institute of Nuclear Reactors in the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region.
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26.06.2014