# Nuclide record b-authorized-user-shortage (bottleneck). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
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@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-authorized-user-shortage/>
  a schema:Thing ;
  nuclide:kind "bottleneck" ;
  schema:identifier "b-authorized-user-shortage" ;
  schema:name "Authorized user shortage for radionuclide therapy"@en ;
  schema:description "In the US, only specially trained doctors are legally allowed to give radioactive cancer treatments. Whether there are enough of these doctors to keep up with demand is genuinely disputed: regulators and physician groups have looked at the numbers and reached different conclusions."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-authorized-user-shortage/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/60/1/1>, <https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1907/ML19077A112.pdf>, <https://www.nrc.gov/materials/miau/med-use-toolkit/auth-individuals>, <https://snmmi.org/common/Uploaded%20files/News/Theranostics_Stakeholders_Summit_White_Paper_FINAL_6-2025.pdf> ;
  nuclide:tag "workforce", "regulation", "authorized user" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-nuclear-medicine-workforce/>, <https://nuclide.cc/bottlenecks/b-site-readiness-referral/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/prrt/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/psma-pet/> ;
  nuclide:institutions <https://nuclide.cc/institutions/snmmi/> .