# Nuclide record re-188 (isotope). 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/isotopes/re-188/>
  a schema:ChemicalSubstance ;
  nuclide:kind "isotope" ;
  schema:identifier "re-188" ;
  schema:name "Rhenium-188"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "188Re"@en, "Re-188"@en ;
  schema:description "A high-energy radioactive metal that a hospital can produce on demand from a small on-site generator, similar to how a common medical imaging isotope is made, rather than needing to import it. It is used for hard-to-reach tumours, including liver cancer."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/re-188/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3638650/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921938/>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6587137/> ;
  nuclide:status "phase-2" ;
  nuclide:tag "therapy", "beta emitter", "gamma emitter", "generator-produced" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/indications/hcc/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radionuclide-generators-kits/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/bone-metastases/> .