# Nuclide record y-90-glass-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/y-90-glass-microspheres/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  nuclide:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "y-90-glass-microspheres" ;
  schema:name "Yttrium-90 glass microspheres"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "TheraSphere"@en, "Y-90 glass microspheres"@en, "TheraSphere" ;
  schema:description "Microscopic glass beads containing a radioactive metal are injected into the artery that supplies a liver tumour. The beads stay in place permanently and give off radiation that fades away within about two weeks."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-glass-microspheres/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/recently-approved-devices/theraspheretm-p200029>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf20/P200029B.pdf>, <https://news.bostonscientific.com/2021-03-18-Boston-Scientific-Receives-FDA-Approval-for-TheraSphere-TM-Y-90-Glass-Microspheres>, <https://journals.lww.com/hep/fulltext/2021/11000/yttrium_90_radioembolization_for_the_treatment_of.9.aspx> ;
  nuclide:status "approved" ;
  nuclide:tag "radioembolisation", "liver", "beta emitter" ;
  nuclide:modality "radioembolisation" ;
  nuclide:approval "US 2021: Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) for local tumour control of solitary unresectable HCC (1-8 cm), Child-Pugh A cirrhosis, no macrovascular invasion, good performance status" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-resin-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ho-166-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/y-90/> ;
  nuclide:indications <https://nuclide.cc/indications/hcc/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioembolisation-tare/> ;
  nuclide:companies <https://nuclide.cc/companies/boston-scientific/> .