# Nuclide record ho-166-microspheres (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ho-166-microspheres/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  nuclide:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "ho-166-microspheres" ;
  schema:name "Holmium-166 microspheres"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "QuiremSpheres"@en, "166Ho-PLLA microspheres"@en, "QuiremSpheres" ;
  schema:description "Tiny plastic beads carrying a radioactive, slightly magnetic metal are injected into the artery feeding a liver tumour. Because the metal shows up on both nuclear scans and MRI, doctors can check exactly where the beads went."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ho-166-microspheres/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9626412/>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta985/chapter/2-Information-about-QuiremSpheres>, <https://www.terumo.com/newsrelease/detail/20190107/234> ;
  nuclide:status "approved" ;
  nuclide:tag "radioembolisation", "liver", "beta emitter", "CE mark" ;
  nuclide:modality "radioembolisation" ;
  nuclide:approval "EU 2015: Treatment of unresectable liver tumours (radioembolisation)" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-resin-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-glass-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/y-90/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ho-166/> ;
  nuclide:indications <https://nuclide.cc/indications/hcc/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioembolisation-tare/> .