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Alpha TAU Killing Tumors With Highly Targeted Alpha Radiation

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Moreover, due to the different nature of healthy and cancerous tissue, alpha radiation produced by Alpha DaRT sources diffuses about a millimeter into healthy tissue while penetrating at a diameter up to about five millimeters into tumors, providing an automatic safety mechanism. Results from initial clinical trials were quite impressive.