| Lo <sup>131</sup>I emette [[radiazione|radiazioni beta]] e [[radiazioni|gamma]] e decade con un'[[emivita]] di 8 giorni.    Studi clinici hanno stabilito l'efficacia del farmaco nel [[linfoma follicolare]] in regimi di [[chemioterapia]] refrattari al [[Rituximab|rituxan]].<ref name="Cheng-">{{Cita pubblicazione  | cognome = Cheng | nome = KT. | coauthors =  | titolo = 131I-Tositumomab | rivista =  | volume =  | numero =  | pagine =  | mese =  | anno =  | doi =  | id = PMID 20641455 }}</ref><ref name="Ketterer-2007">{{Cita pubblicazione  | cognome = Ketterer | nome = N. | coauthors = A. Bischof Delaloye; C. Helg; F. Luthi; F. Buchegger | titolo = [Radioimmunotherapy of follicular lymphoma: a step towards cure?]. | rivista = Bull Cancer | volume = 94 | numero = 9 | pagine = 799-806 | mese = Sep settembre| anno = 2007 | doi =  | id = PMID 17878100 }}</ref>   Viene prodotto da [[Corixa]] ora [[GlaxoSmithKline]].<ref name="urlus.gsk.com">{{citeCita web | url = http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_bexxar.pdf |titletitolo = us.gsk.com |authorautore = |authorlinkwkautore = |coauthorscoautori = |datedata = |formatformato = |workopera = |publishereditore = |pagespagine = |languagelingua = en |archiveurlurlarchivio = |archivedatedataarchivio = | quote = |accessdateaccesso = }}</ref>   Alcuni studi indicherebbemo una minore piastrinopenia rispetto all'[[ibritumomab tiuxetan]].<ref>{{Cita pubblicazione  | cognome = Jacene | nome = HA. | coauthors = R. Filice; W. Kasecamp; RL. Wahl | titolo = Comparison of 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan and 131I-tositumomab in clinical practice. | rivista = J Nucl Med | volume = 48 | numero = 11 | pagine = 1767-76 | mese = Nov novembre| anno = 2007 | doi = 10.2967/jnumed.107.043489 | id = PMID 17942813 }}</ref>   == Note ==   == Bibliografia == * {{citeCitabooklibro|authorautore=Frank Ashall|titletitolo=Le grandi scoperte scientifiche|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GXsecqAh6MEC&pg=PA245|accessdatedatadiaccesso= |yearanno=1999|publishereditore=Armando Editore|isbnid=ISBN 9788871449494|pagespagine=245–}} * {{citeCitabooklibro|author1=Abul K. Abbas|author2=Andrew H. Lichtman|author3=Shiv Pillai|titletitolo=Immunologia cellulare e molecolare|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9SFm3nMO_gUC&pg=PA79|accessdatedatadiaccesso= |yearanno=2010|publishereditore=Elsevier srl|isbnid=ISBN 9788821431760|pagespagine=79–}} * {{citeCitabooklibro|author1=Abul K. Abbas|author2=Andrew H. 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