# Nuclide record y-90-resin-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-resin-microspheres/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  nuclide:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "y-90-resin-microspheres" ;
  schema:name "Yttrium-90 resin microspheres"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "SIR-Spheres"@en, "Y-90 resin microspheres"@en, "SIR-Spheres" ;
  schema:description "Tiny radioactive beads are injected through a small tube into the artery that feeds the liver. They lodge in the tumour and give it radiation from the inside, mostly sparing the rest of the liver."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-resin-microspheres/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma.cfm?ID=P990065S014>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf/P990065S014B.pdf>, <https://www.sirtex.com/media/p1kjiw5m/sirtex-medical-announces-fda-approval-hcc-indication-us.pdf>, <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf/p990065b.pdf> ;
  nuclide:status "approved" ;
  nuclide:tag "radioembolisation", "liver", "beta emitter" ;
  nuclide:modality "radioembolisation" ;
  nuclide:approval "US 2002: Unresectable metastatic liver tumours from primary colorectal cancer, with adjuvant intrahepatic artery chemotherapy (FUDR)", "US 2025: Local tumour control of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (no macrovascular invasion, Child-Pugh A, well-compensated liver function, good performance status)" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/y-90-glass-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ho-166-microspheres/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/tc-99m-maa/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/tc-99m/>, <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/sirtex/> .