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Review traces radium’s health risks and limited uses in cancer care

This narrative review examines radium from its discovery through its current, limited medical uses. It describes human health risks linked with exposure, while noting that some radium isotopes are used in selected cancer treatments. The review is not a new study of patients and does not establish the effectiveness of any treatment.

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