We have introduced a new method for treating cancer for the first time in the world. We targeted a protein called FAP, which is secreted by cells surrounding the tumor, using a special radioactive isotope (rutheium-2268) produced by the Atomic Energy Organization.

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Massive Nuclear Nerd Rant Incoming

Alright I'm about to rant because this news is an extremely sloppy piece of reporting. First and foremost, thete is no element known as "Rutheium". There is one named Ruthenium however that just leads to the next issue. Ruthenium (Ru, element 44) can not have an isotope of 2268, literally no element can have an isotope 2268, as that would be thousands of neutrons for, at most, a little more than a hundred protons (which is assuming you're using Actinides or man made elements, all at the end of the periodic table), that is not at all possible. Not to mention, Ruthenium, is not an Actinide, as mentioned, it's about half of the mass number needed to be one, meaning if this was a Ru-2268 isotope (again absolutely impossible) it would mean that it was an isotope with 44 protons, and 2,224 neutrons. To put that into perspective, this thing would have a mass 7.5x the heaviest currently recorded manmade element, Oganesson (Og), with a mass number of 294.

Alright, so now that I've demonstrated why this can't possibly be a single isotope, and why it's utterly absurd to anyone with any understanding of even cursory nuclear science, I'll give my theory on what this actually is. Ruthenium-2268 doesn't exist, however Ru-106, is an isotope that's been in cancer research of this kind according to my search. Now, forgive my ignorance, but I'm not a nuclear health specialists, so I don't understand the specifics of FAP or cancer treatment, however I pursued over some article titles to find that, yes Ruthenium is being used in cancer research.

Essentially, whatever the hell these people are talking about, which the only other source I could find was a Twitter thread, where I think this originated, it requires significantly more elaboration.

They are claiming that Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has developed this isotope (also the name is what I suspected, Ruthenium). However they don't give any source or explanation for this fucking wild naming scheme of Ruthenium-2268, which absolutely requires an explanation. Now, if you think, "oh well the video in Farsi probably explains it better" Hahaha, NOPE! The video, doesn't even explain the process behind producing this isotope, instead it's the Dr speaking about his experience applying to John Hobkins, but choosing to stay in Iran after deliberating with his wife on the benifets of leaving or staying.

Perhaps my mother simply didn't pick up what he was saying, but as far as I know, that's all he spoke about. So now, I'm utterly baffled as to what the fuck these people are talking about, as they refuse to do the bare minimum of trying to explain where they got this info from.

So, I decided to do it for them.

Unveiling the newest radiopharmaceutical for cancer m treatment in Iran

With a basic question on Gemini, I was able to track what I think is the original Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) article describing the process. It was posted on National Nuclear Technology Day, last year, which was on the 20th day of the first month of the Iranian Solar calender, (1/20/1404). Today, is the 6/01/1405 (apologies for using US date writing but that's also the format on the website naming schemes) for reference. This is article describes what actually was discovered.

A treatment using the Lutetium - 177 isotope, which is pronounced "Lutishium" in farsi. So my initial guess on Ruthenium 106, was completely wrong, but the question is why, was this mistake made? The answer is quite simple, in Farsi, Letetium is written:

لوتشیوم

And during a press release, it was accidentally incorrectly typed as:

روتشیوم

The "ر" makes the R sound in English as opposed to "ل" which makes the L sound. So in English it would be translated as "Rutishium" which, obviously does not exist, so autotraslation would probably correct it to "Ruthenium" to compensate.

This is the article that made the press release: Iranian doctor writes new prescription for cancer treatment in the world

Which was posted on the the 1st day of the 6th month, 1405, aka today.

Now the 2268, is still a mystery to me. It's not at all possible so I can't really begin to guess where that came from. The article from a year ago only mentions Lutetium-177, but the current one does say Lutetium-2268. So it's probably some serial number or other classification, because as it stands ot makes no sense, but since it came from the mouth of an actual expert, I very much doubt it's a mistake of words. I think it's just a different naming scheme that got garbled in translation.

Apologies for the long winded rant, but this piece if misinformation very much annoyed me.