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Abstract
Release of radioactive substances into the environment can take place due to certain accidents or increase in usage of radioactive material as nuclear weapons by terrorist to harm the society. These radioactive substances can damage skin (external contamination) or can enter into the systemic circulation of exposed person and can induce various health hazards. Exposed person can suffer from various acute and chronic diseases such as acute radiation syndrome, cancer of lung, thyroid and bone. The release of these radioactive substances has rosined in past few years due to increase in terrorist attack globally and increase in usage of these agents in medical diagnostic imaging. Decorporation therapy is used to treat the contamination induced by these toxic radioactive substances. In decorporation therapy various medicinal agents such as adsorbents, laxatives, mobilizing agents, chelating agents are used.