Health Experts from 15 African countries have met in Kampala,Uganda to discuss the use of nuclear medicine for faster diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The use of nuclear medicine is an intervention that seeks to help detect the spread of cancer in patients much faster.
According to experts, nuclear medicine was unrivaled in terms of accuracy particularly when examining the extent the cancer has spread.
“If a patient has thyroid cancer and you want to determine the extent the disease has spread, you can use nuclear medicine. You use particular radiopharmaceuticals. These are given to patients and they go to the blood. From what they show, you can tell the body parts the disease has spread to. It is a one body scan,” explains Dr. Zeridah Muyinda Uganda’s consultant radiologist.
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