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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
2009 Nuclear Medicine - Group 1
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This group explained how radioiostopes are unstable. They commented on the belt of stability that will show unstable elements. Nulear medical treatments also give off radiation in many forms. Some of these forms are alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, as well as positrons. Nuclear medicine involves PET scans, xrays, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy. These things are all good to use because they can help save lives. One patient in the video suffered from thyroid cancer and didn't know it. They injected her with radioactive tracers and were able to detect the tumor. This saved her life because they may not have found it if they did not use nuclear medicine. However, this girl had to go through radio-immune therapy. This made her sick and caused her much pain and discomfort. Radio-immune therapy helps your body recover, but it is not the best. It kills bad cells, and hurts the healthy ones, as well. This treatment itself doen't hurt, but the side-effects do. I agree with the defense because sometimes the only ways to get better are not fun. If PET scans, xrays, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy are not used, then many problems and diseases may go undetected. It is better to go through some pain and discomfort than to potentially lose your life over something that could have been stopped in the first place.
This group fully addressed the unique nature of nuclear medicine. They explained how radiation comes in three forms: alpha, beta, and gamma. There are many pros to this technology. One is that it makes surgery and diagnosis much easier than it used to be through the use of x-rays, cat scans, PET scans, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy. Nuclear medicine is used to detect and remove tumors. The main con to nuclear medicine is that the radiation hurts the immune system. Radiation kills the bad cells, but in the process it also hurts the good cells. The process itself doesn not hurt, however the side effects do. Patients are more suseptable to other diseases while undergoing radiation due to their weakened immune system. I agree with the defense in this case because i would personally rather go throught some short term pain to be healthy than to be in constant pain for the rest of my life. However, I don't think radiation should be used as much as it is. If it is used too much, the world will become way too overpopulated.
This group described how radioactive isotopes have unstable nuclei, and emit radiation as they attempt to become stable. In defense of the technology, they described the PET scan, where a patient is injected with a radioactive substance that doctors can follow through the patient's body. The scan can provide images of blood flow and other body functions, and does not produce environment-threatening waste. The group then discussed radioimmune therapy, which can help treat cancer. This is the best treatment option. Points of prosecution include the fact that such scans and therapy can be very expensive, and that the therapy can make the patient sick and affect other cells, like hair and nail cells. The patient in this group described her sickness and discomfort, but agreed she would rather have the treatment and live. The arguement of the defense made more sense to me, as the pros outweighed the cons. While this technology may have negative effects, it can also save your life.
This group did a good job of pointing out the use of nuclear medicine. For example the girl with the thyroid cancer would not have known had it not been for nuclear medicine. If nuclear medicine is helpful, then it is best to use it. I agree that nuclear medicine should be used. Although it causes pain nuclear medicine helps more than it harms. The group also clearly defined a radioactive isotope and the belt of stability as well as the application of nuclear technology.
Nuclear medicine can be helpful and harmful to the human body. This group described that a radioisotope becomes unstable and to try to become stable it emits alpha particles, which are helium atoms and emits radiation. On one side nuclear medicine is a good thing because it does not emit waste into the enviornment. Also when it comes to cancer treatment, radioactive tracers are used by doctors to see if there is anything unusual in the body by monitoring hormones. Doctors use negative beta particles because many elements emit this particle. The patient in the video had thyroid cancer and radioimmune therapy was used as a treatment for it. Antibodies with radioactive isotopes was injested into her and they grab onto the cancer cells slowly killing those cancer cells. A PET scan is used when it is injected with a radioactive substance, a circular gamma ray detector ray . Ventilation crystals convert with gamma rays emitted from the patient to creat a picture. The downside to nuclear medicine is that with that thearpy good cells are also being hurt stunting the growth of fingernails. Also the patient became sick from it. Another downside is that the patient is exposed to radiation and it becomes very expensive because it must be produced near particle accelerators. Nuclear medicine should be used because it is helpful for the tratment of cancer and although it can be painful, it stops the cancer in its tracks. 305900
This group did address how a radioisotope allows nuclear medicine to exist. Nuclear medicine gives off alpha, beta, gamma and positron radiation. Examples of nuclear medicine are PET scans, x rays (which are very important for diagnosis), tracers, and radio-immune therapy. Nuclear medicine is used to help patients recover. For example there was the girl with thyroid cancer. She was only diagnosed because of nuclear medicine. While the medicine caused her pain, it also helped her recover and she agreed that it helped to save her life. However, the radiation from nuclear medicine hurts a human's immune system and also kills good cells as well as bad ones. As a result, patients become more likely to catch a disease with a down immune system that is due to radiation from nuclear medicine. The claim evidence reasoning of the defense makes more sense to me because it showed both sides of the argument but was able to conclude that a world with nuclear medicine is better than another one. The radiation is dangerous and causes side effects but on the other hand it can also save your life. Side effects and a life versus no life, I would choose life.
I believe the group did adress the unique nature of a radioisotiope that allows this technology to exist. In favor for nuclear medicine was that it does not emitt any harmful waste into the environment and tracers allow docotrs to asses any damage done within the patient's body. The negative side to the argument was that its high doses of radiation can be very harmful to the body when used too frequently. I agree more with the defense for nuclear medicine because it provides a way for doctors to test hormones and other things going on inside the body that are otherwise unable to be seen without it.
This group did a good job in addressing the nature of radioisotopes used in nuclear medicine. They explained how the isotopes are unstable and in an effort to become stable give off radiation. The defense of nuclear medicine said how nuclear medicine can help save lives. They can detect toomers, and other problems. They say how the medicine includes things such as x rays, radio-immune therapy, PET scans, and radioactive tracers. Nuclear medicine can help remove the toomers they earlier detected also. They talk about how a patient wouldnt have known the yhad thyroid cancer if it wasnt for nuclear medicine. The cons of the medicin are also stated. They talk about how it not only kills bad cells but it also kills the good cells which makes the person more suceptible to other deseases. I am in favor of the nuclear medicine because it atleast gives you a chance to fight back against the disease rather than doing nothing about it. I would rather have a chance to live than no chance. 804130
747620 This group clearly address the unstabability of radioisotopes, giving off alpha, beta, and gamma rays. The pros of nuclear medicine incluses easier forms of treatments, such as xrays, PET scans, tracers, and immune therapy. Nuclear medicine can be used to help forms of sickness that no other methods can, such as detecting tumors. However, while raditation can cures sicknesses, i can also harm your immune system. The after effects of radio-immune therapy are hurtfull because its kills the harmful, as well as helpful, cells. Though the outcome of nuclear medicine are not the most comfortable, I am leaning towards pro-nuclear medicine. I would rather deal with temporary discomfort and side effects than not live at all.
This group did address the unique nature of a radioisotope that allows nuclear medicine technology to exist. They talked about using xrays and how bad that is for people who undergo it because they could get sick. Radio-immune therapy was mentioned. They mentioned radioactive tracers too. They talked about how the PET scan was invited where a radioactive substance is injected into the body. These are good things because they can help the body and keep people living. On the other hand, the radiation really might be killing the body. When radioactive substances are killing the bad cells they also hurt the ones that are good. When the patient was injected with nuclear medicine she was very uncomfortable. Her immune system was not okay. There were very bad side effects to the radio immune therapy. All these new technologies fort the xrays, PET scans, and tracers are very useful in society. They might not cure people but it obviously helps and many other problems could occur. Nuclear medicine does save lives so why risk dying.
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This group explained how radioiostopes are unstable. They commented on the belt of stability that will show unstable elements. Nulear medical treatments also give off radiation in many forms. Some of these forms are alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, as well as positrons. Nuclear medicine involves PET scans, xrays, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy. These things are all good to use because they can help save lives. One patient in the video suffered from thyroid cancer and didn't know it. They injected her with radioactive tracers and were able to detect the tumor. This saved her life because they may not have found it if they did not use nuclear medicine. However, this girl had to go through radio-immune therapy. This made her sick and caused her much pain and discomfort. Radio-immune therapy helps your body recover, but it is not the best. It kills bad cells, and hurts the healthy ones, as well. This treatment itself doen't hurt, but the side-effects do. I agree with the defense because sometimes the only ways to get better are not fun. If PET scans, xrays, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy are not used, then many problems and diseases may go undetected. It is better to go through some pain and discomfort than to potentially lose your life over something that could have been stopped in the first place.
This group fully addressed the unique nature of nuclear medicine. They explained how radiation comes in three forms: alpha, beta, and gamma. There are many pros to this technology. One is that it makes surgery and diagnosis much easier than it used to be through the use of x-rays, cat scans, PET scans, radioactive tracers, and radio-immune therapy. Nuclear medicine is used to detect and remove tumors. The main con to nuclear medicine is that the radiation hurts the immune system. Radiation kills the bad cells, but in the process it also hurts the good cells. The process itself doesn not hurt, however the side effects do. Patients are more suseptable to other diseases while undergoing radiation due to their weakened immune system. I agree with the defense in this case because i would personally rather go throught some short term pain to be healthy than to be in constant pain for the rest of my life. However, I don't think radiation should be used as much as it is. If it is used too much, the world will become way too overpopulated.
This group described how radioactive isotopes have unstable nuclei, and emit radiation as they attempt to become stable. In defense of the technology, they described the PET scan, where a patient is injected with a radioactive substance that doctors can follow through the patient's body. The scan can provide images of blood flow and other body functions, and does not produce environment-threatening waste. The group then discussed radioimmune therapy, which can help treat cancer. This is the best treatment option. Points of prosecution include the fact that such scans and therapy can be very expensive, and that the therapy can make the patient sick and affect other cells, like hair and nail cells. The patient in this group described her sickness and discomfort, but agreed she would rather have the treatment and live. The arguement of the defense made more sense to me, as the pros outweighed the cons. While this technology may have negative effects, it can also save your life.
This group did a good job of pointing out the use of nuclear medicine. For example the girl with the thyroid cancer would not have known had it not been for nuclear medicine. If nuclear medicine is helpful, then it is best to use it. I agree that nuclear medicine should be used. Although it causes pain nuclear medicine helps more than it harms. The group also clearly defined a radioactive isotope and the belt of stability as well as the application of nuclear technology.
Nuclear medicine can be helpful and harmful to the human body. This group described that a radioisotope becomes unstable and to try to become stable it emits alpha particles, which are helium atoms and emits radiation. On one side nuclear medicine is a good thing because it does not emit waste into the enviornment. Also when it comes to cancer treatment, radioactive tracers are used by doctors to see if there is anything unusual in the body by monitoring hormones. Doctors use negative beta particles because many elements emit this particle. The patient in the video had thyroid cancer and radioimmune therapy was used as a treatment for it. Antibodies with radioactive isotopes was injested into her and they grab onto the cancer cells slowly killing those cancer cells. A PET scan is used when it is injected with a radioactive substance, a circular gamma ray detector ray . Ventilation crystals convert with gamma rays emitted from the patient to creat a picture. The downside to nuclear medicine is that with that thearpy good cells are also being hurt stunting the growth of fingernails. Also the patient became sick from it. Another downside is that the patient is exposed to radiation and it becomes very expensive because it must be produced near particle accelerators. Nuclear medicine should be used because it is helpful for the tratment of cancer and although it can be painful, it stops the cancer in its tracks.
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This group did address how a radioisotope allows nuclear medicine to exist. Nuclear medicine gives off alpha, beta, gamma and positron radiation. Examples of nuclear medicine are PET scans, x rays (which are very important for diagnosis), tracers, and radio-immune therapy. Nuclear medicine is used to help patients recover. For example there was the girl with thyroid cancer. She was only diagnosed because of nuclear medicine. While the medicine caused her pain, it also helped her recover and she agreed that it helped to save her life. However, the radiation from nuclear medicine hurts a human's immune system and also kills good cells as well as bad ones. As a result, patients become more likely to catch a disease with a down immune system that is due to radiation from nuclear medicine. The claim evidence reasoning of the defense makes more sense to me because it showed both sides of the argument but was able to conclude that a world with nuclear medicine is better than another one. The radiation is dangerous and causes side effects but on the other hand it can also save your life. Side effects and a life versus no life, I would choose life.
I believe the group did adress the unique nature of a radioisotiope that allows this technology to exist. In favor for nuclear medicine was that it does not emitt any harmful waste into the environment and tracers allow docotrs to asses any damage done within the patient's body. The negative side to the argument was that its high doses of radiation can be very harmful to the body when used too frequently. I agree more with the defense for nuclear medicine because it provides a way for doctors to test hormones and other things going on inside the body that are otherwise unable to be seen without it.
This group did a good job in addressing the nature of radioisotopes used in nuclear medicine. They explained how the isotopes are unstable and in an effort to become stable give off radiation. The defense of nuclear medicine said how nuclear medicine can help save lives. They can detect toomers, and other problems. They say how the medicine includes things such as x rays, radio-immune therapy, PET scans, and radioactive tracers. Nuclear medicine can help remove the toomers they earlier detected also. They talk about how a patient wouldnt have known the yhad thyroid cancer if it wasnt for nuclear medicine. The cons of the medicin are also stated. They talk about how it not only kills bad cells but it also kills the good cells which makes the person more suceptible to other deseases. I am in favor of the nuclear medicine because it atleast gives you a chance to fight back against the disease rather than doing nothing about it. I would rather have a chance to live than no chance. 804130
747620 This group clearly address the unstabability of radioisotopes, giving off alpha, beta, and gamma rays. The pros of nuclear medicine incluses easier forms of treatments, such as xrays, PET scans, tracers, and immune therapy. Nuclear medicine can be used to help forms of sickness that no other methods can, such as detecting tumors. However, while raditation can cures sicknesses, i can also harm your immune system. The after effects of radio-immune therapy are hurtfull because its kills the harmful, as well as helpful, cells. Though the outcome of nuclear medicine are not the most comfortable, I am leaning towards pro-nuclear medicine. I would rather deal with temporary discomfort and side effects than not live at all.
This group did address the unique nature of a radioisotope that allows nuclear medicine technology to exist. They talked about using xrays and how bad that is for people who undergo it because they could get sick. Radio-immune therapy was mentioned. They mentioned radioactive tracers too. They talked about how the PET scan was invited where a radioactive substance is injected into the body. These are good things because they can help the body and keep people living. On the other hand, the radiation really might be killing the body. When radioactive substances are killing the bad cells they also hurt the ones that are good. When the patient was injected with nuclear medicine she was very uncomfortable. Her immune system was not okay. There were very bad side effects to the radio immune therapy. All these new technologies fort the xrays, PET scans, and tracers are very useful in society. They might not cure people but it obviously helps and many other problems could occur. Nuclear medicine does save lives so why risk dying.
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