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One of the most promising candidates for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) is the beta-emitting radiometal silver-111, obtainable carrier-free irradiating a uranium carbide target with a proton beam and applying the ISOL technique. Until SPES will become fully operational, small quantities of silver-111 are produced by the TRIGA Mark II nuclear reactor hosted by the LENA facility of the University of Pavia to begin the preclinical research. The present work concerns the first radiobiological experiment involving silver-111.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Different activity concentrations of the aforementioned radiometal are administered to the UMR-106 rat osteosarcoma and LNCaP human prostate cancer cell lines through the culture medium. The survival curves after four and six days of exposure, as well as the recurrence of\n                      <jats:italic>foci<\/jats:italic>\n                      of DNA repair proteins and micronuclei, are evaluated as a function of the absorbed dose and compared to the control cultures. According to the MIRD formalism, a dosimetric analysis is performed taking advantage of cellular S-values simulated with the Monte Carlo code Geant4 in a generalized cell geometry. 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