**6. Health and safety**

Radiopharmaceuticals are as safe as other medicine and before use they are tested carefully.


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**Author details**

Pankaj Kashyap2

Chanchal Deep Kaur1

\*, Koushlesh Kumar Mishra1

1 Shri Rawatpura Sarkar Institute of Pharmacy, Kumhari, Chhattisgarh, India

4 Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya, Sarguja Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India

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, Saraswati Prasad Mishra<sup>3</sup>

2 Royal College of Pharmacy, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

3 RITEE Institute of Pharmacy, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India

\*Address all correspondence to: chanchaldeep@gmail.com

provided the original work is properly cited.

, Anil Sahu<sup>2</sup>

and Anand Kumar4

, Rajnikant Panik<sup>2</sup>

,

*Theranostics: New Era in Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals*

or technetium Tc 99m albumin for test, Consult doctor if have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to products containing human serum albumin [33].

• Side effects: when radiopharmaceuticals are used in very small doses to study an organ of the body, side effects are rare and usually involve an allergic reaction. These effects may occur almost immediately or a few minutes after the

In recent past radiopharmaceuticals made steady progress towards nuclear imaging and therapy. The benefit of molecular imaging and therapy can obtain when required amount of diagnostic probes reaches the targeted site. Effort have been taken in enhancing specificity of targeted radiotracers in both pre-clinical research and clinical trials. In recent discussions the advancement in the said field has been discussed taking into account multi-modal molecular imaging probes for sentinel lymph node mapping and image-guided surgery, radiotracers for targeted imaging of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, along with probes for monitoring therapy responses. For better diagnosis and therapy design of radiopharmaceuticals as well as route of administration plays a major role. At last dose of radioactive medicine should be set with caution to prevent over exposure of patient, the principle of 'As Low as Reasonably Achievable' (ALARA) used for protection of employee as well as general public. The knowledge about medical physics is essential because of interactions between ionizing radiation and biological tissues. According to author we can be optimistic for the future growth of radiopharmaceuticals. This trend can be seen in recent future with the help of thriving research and fast translations into clinic. The high cost, demanding hardware requirements and specialized personnel training are major factors that may confine the development of radiopharmaceuticals. However, the huge needs for nuclear medicine from the public and the benefits to patient care far outweigh the risks.

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91868*

radiopharmaceutical is given.

**7. Conclusion**

or technetium Tc 99m albumin for test, Consult doctor if have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to products containing human serum albumin [33].

• Side effects: when radiopharmaceuticals are used in very small doses to study an organ of the body, side effects are rare and usually involve an allergic reaction. These effects may occur almost immediately or a few minutes after the radiopharmaceutical is given.
