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How does samarium help kill cancer cells?

Updated: 8/21/2019
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Samarium doesn't kill cancer cells. A radioactive isotope of samarium (samarium-153) is used in a chemotherapy agent, but it's the radiation, not the samarium, that kills the cancer cells.

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