Radiotherapy where cytotoxic radionuclides are linked to antibodies in order to deliver toxins directly to tumor targets. Therapy with targeted radiation rather than antibody-targeted toxins (IMMUNOTOXINS) has the advantage that adjacent tumor cells, which lack the appropriate antigenic determinants, can be destroyed by radiation cross-fire. Radioimmunotherapy is sometimes called targeted radiotherapy, but this latter term can also refer to radionuclides linked to non-immune molecules (see RADIOTHERAPY).

Descriptor ID	D016499
MeSH Number(s)	E02.095.465.425.750 E02.186.750 E02.815.520
Concept/Terms	Radioimmunotherapy Radioimmunotherapy Radioimmunotherapies Immunoradiotherapy Immunoradiotherapies

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