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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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