Radioisotopes
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Advances in medical treatment and cancer studies have come a long way in the past decade. Although there is no cure, at the moment, for cancer many medical professionals have come up with ways to help treat certain types of cancer. All of these ways have been scientifically tested and proven to help, even in the slightest amount. There are many ways to help control and identify problems within the human body. One of problems most often searched for would be a disfunctional organ. Radioisotopes are often used to find and identify these dysfunctions with in the body.
Radioisotopes, or radioactive isotopes, are unstable atoms produced artificially. When protons and neutrons are combined that form something that does not naturally exist, that atom will be unstable. There are three smaller particles associated with radioisotopes called quarks. Radioisotopes gradually loose their radioactivity and the amount of time it takes to loose half of their radioactivity is referred to as their half-life...