The enduring legacy of Marie Curie: impacts of radium in 21st century radiological and medical sciences

Rebecca Abergel; John Aris; Wesley E. Bolch; Shaheen A. Dewji; Ashley Golden; David A. Hooper; Dmitri Margot; Carly G. Menker; Tatjana Paunesku; Dörthe Schaue; Gayle E. Woloschak

doi:10.1080/09553002.2022.2027542

The enduring legacy of Marie Curie: impacts of radium in 21st century radiological and medical sciences

Rebecca Abergel, John Aris, Wesley E. Bolch, Shaheen A. Dewji, Ashley Golden, David A. Hooper, Dmitri Margot, Carly G. Menker, Tatjana Paunesku, Dörthe Schaue, Gayle E. Woloschak^*

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Radiation Oncology

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Purpose: This review is focused on radium and radionuclides in its decay chain in honor of Marie Curie, who discovered this element. Materials and methods: We conglomerated current knowledge regarding radium and its history predating our present understanding of this radionuclide. Results: An overview of the properties of radium and its dose assessment is shown followed by discussions about both the negative detrimental and positive therapeutic applications of radium with this history and its evolution reflecting current innovations in medical science. Conclusions: We hope to remind all those who are interested in the progress of science about the vagaries of the process of scientific discovery. In addition, we raise the interesting question of whether Marie Curie’s initial success was in part possible due to her tight alignment with her husband Pierre Curie who pushed the work along.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	267-275
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Journal of Radiation Biology
Volume	98
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09553002.2022.2027542
State	Published - 2022

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We thank Susan Brand and Caitlin Youngquist for creating new artwork for this manuscript, which was supported by the University of California Contractor Supporting Research Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was funded by DoD award [W81XWH-20-PRMRP-FPA] (PD GEW; PIs WB, SD, GEW, RA, AG, DH) and by National Cancer Institute [R01CA226875] (PI DS); National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [U01AI148322] (PI DS), and Georgia Institute of Technology Award [AWD-002993] under Prime Grant Number [GR00013131] with Sandia National Laboratories (PI SD). We thank Susan Brand and Caitlin Youngquist for creating new artwork for this manuscript, which was supported by the University of California Contractor Supporting Research Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory under U.S. Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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Radionuclides
radium
radon
risk

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Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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