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How nuclear medicine helps treat cancer
"Today, we use nuclear medicine methods to treat thyroid cancer, prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. However, ongoing research gives us the hope that it will be soon possible to overcome many other cancers this way – says Prof. Jolanta Kunikowska from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at UCK WUM. – I know that many patients are afraid of radiation, which is probably because of the Chernobyl disaster. But the explosion at the power plant was an accident; the level of radiation was uncontrolled. In nuclear medicine, we control the dose with precision. We prepare radiopharmaceuticals "tailor-made" for a specific patient. And it is always the smallest possible dose, enabling diagnostics or effective therapy.
"Today, we use nuclear medicine methods to treat thyroid cancer, prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. However, ongoing research gives us the hope that it will be soon possible to overcome many other cancers this way – says Prof. Jolanta Kunikowska from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at UCK WUM. – I know that many patients are afraid of radiation, which is probably because of the Chernobyl disaster. But the explosion at the power plant was an accident; the level of radiation was uncontrolled. In nuclear medicine, we control the dose with precision. We prepare radiopharmaceuticals "tailor-made" for a specific patient. And it is always the smallest possible dose, enabling diagnostics or effective therapy.
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How nuclear medicine helps treat cancer
"Today, we use nuclear medicine methods to treat thyroid cancer, prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. However, ongoing research gives us the hope that it will be soon possible to overcome many other cancers this way – says Prof. Jolanta Kunikowska from the Department of Nuclear Medicine at UCK WUM. – I know that many patients are afraid of radiation, which is probably because of the Chernobyl disaster. But the explosion at the power plant was an accident; the level of radiation was uncontrolled. In nuclear medicine, we control the dose with precision. We prepare radiopharmaceuticals "tailor-made" for a specific patient. And it is always the smallest possible dose, enabling diagnostics or effective therapy.
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