One of the most popular techniques for cancer detection is the nuclear medicine technique. The present research focuses on Platelet-12-lipoxygenase (P-12-LOX) as a promising target for treating and radio-imaging tumor tissues. Curcumin was reported to inhibit this enzyme via binding to its active site. | Platelet 12 lipoxygenase targeting via a newly synthesized curcumin derivative radiolabeled with technetium 99m