What Does A Radioactive Injection Do?

What Does A Radioactive Injection Do? Nuclear medicine uses radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals or radiotracers Why do you have a radioactive injection? Radioactive scans can help your doctors diagnose some types of neuroendocrine tumours. You have an injection of a low dose radioactive substance, which can show up on a scan. Radioactive scans include: octreotide