Patent ID: 6315979
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
A method of brachytherapy comprising administering to an animal in vivo in an implantable catheter an effective amount of a pharmaceutical formulation comprising as an active ingredient a radioiodinated compound of the formula ##STR12##wherein: m and n are independently 0, 1, 2 or 3, X is a sulfonate, sulfonic acid or salt thereof, R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are independently hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, or a carboxyl group, I* is .sup.123 I, .sup.131 I or .sup.125 I, and its pharmaceutically-acceptable salts, with a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier, having less than about 15% by weight of unbound iodine present.