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On the sixth day, Young-Joon visited Sunyoo Hospital again. He was alone without Song Ji-Hyun. He met Professor Kim Chun-Jung and pitched the idea.
“Let’s scan glucose and see where the cancer has spread since cancer cells eat a lot of glucose.”
“Are you going to use FDG?”
FDG, or fluorodeoxyglucose, was glucose that was labeled as a radioisotope. It was a drug that was often used to study diabetes and such, and it was easily absorbed in places where glucose was absorbed as it had a very similar structure. FDG emitted positrons from where it was absorbed, so it allowed one to see how the glucose moved with a positron emission tomography scan.
The problem was that FDG was a radioactive material. It constantly emitted radiation, internal contamination occurred continuously within the body, and it wasn’t metabolized and destroyed easily like glucose. It was discharged from the body as urine after a long time, but until then, the patient’s body was like a walking, radioactive lump.
“I’m against using it.” Kim Chun-Jung shook her head. “She is still young. I would use it if the patient was old and there was a high risk of metastasis. But not Lee Yoon-Ah.”
“You’re saying that since cell division must keep occurring in the body as she is young, internal contamination,...
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