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    The radio isotope used to control the disease like blood cancer (Leukaemia) is:?

    Phosphorus-32

    Incorrect Answer

    Cobalt-60

    Correct Answer

    Iodine-131

    Incorrect Answer

    Sodium-24

    Incorrect Answer
    Explanation:

    Cobalt therapy or cobalt 60 therapy is the medical use of gamma rays from the radio isotope cobalt −60 to treat conditions such as cancer. Thus, Cobalt −60 is the radio isotope useful in treating the blood cancer. Cobalt therapy is the medical use of gamma rays from the radioisotope cobalt-60 to treat conditions such as cancer. Beginning in the 1950s, cobalt-60 was widely used in external beam radiotherapy (teletherapy) machines, which produced a beam of gamma rays which was directed into the patient's body to kill tumor tissue. Hence option 2nd is correct.


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