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About us   Canadian Isotopes

   by the Numbers
 The Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC)
 is an independent organization consisting of
 representatives from various levels within the   1951:
 Canadian health sector, nuclear industry, and   The world’s first cancer

 research bodies, convened specifically to advocate   treatment with radiation took
 for Canada’s role in the production of the world’s   place in London, Ontario.
 supply of isotopes.  This marked an important   15,000

   milestone for both the fight       therapeutic doses
 Canada’s Role   against cancer and Canada’s   administered each


   emergence as a leader in            year in Canada.              Nuclear Medicine
 For more than 60 years, Canada has played
 an important role in researching, developing,   the field of nuclear power.  Nuclear medicine uses radioisotopes to provide
 and producing medical isotopes and                                  diagnostic information about the functioning of a
 radiopharmaceuticals for both domestic and                          person’s specific organs or to treat them. Thanks

 international use.                                                  to Canadian innovation, diagnostic procedures
                                                                     that involve radioisotopes are now used routinely
                              Canada contributes
 Isotopes and their uses     more than 50% of the                    worldwide.


                             world’s “raw material”
 •   Sterilization                                                   Nuclear medicine offers non-invasive imaging
                                isotope supply.                      of biochemical changes in your body.
 •  Diagnostic imaging
                                                                     Radioisotopes can reveal how organs and bodily
 •  Cancer treatment                                                 systems are functioning, not just what they look like,

 •  Insect sterilization  250                                        as with X-rays.
   radioisotopes licensed by
 •  Food irradiation                                                 •   30,000 times per week that doctors use
   the Canadian Nuclear Safety
 •  Research & Development  Commission for use and                     isotopes in nuclear imaging to quickly and
   production in Canada.                                               accurately diagnose illness.


                                                                     •   40+ million nuclear medicine procedures
                      1.5 million                                      performed each year.


                      nuclear diagnostic scans are                   •   Over 10,000 hospitals worldwide use
                      performed each year in Canada.                   radioisotopes in medicine, and about 90%
                                                                       of the procedures are for diagnoses.


                                                                     •   $4 billion: the current valuation of the        Credit-  Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council (CNIC)
      Across Canada, about 20,000 patients                             global business of medical isotopes, which
        undergo nuclear imaging procedures every                       is projected to grow by 5% every year.
         week, and the field of nuclear medicine is

                 growing around the world.

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