Nuclear Medicine Therapy

Liver malignancy, be it primary tumors like Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and Cholangiocarcinoma, is one of the top five most common cancers worldwide and is also a frequent cause of cancer-related mortality. In most of the cases, Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is often diagnosed late in the intermediate-advanced stage (stage B and C). Because of this often-late diagnosis, radical therapy doesn’t offer much success. While a few curative and/ or palliative therapies might help, but they are not often characterized by a favorable safety or efficacy ratio. Hence for this intermediate to advanced stages of HCC, internal radionuclide therapy is emerging as a good therapeutic option. And according to several studies, Transarterial Radioembolization (TARE) or intra-arterial injection of a radiolabeled embolising agent has led to extremely promising results, both in terms of demonstration of a good tolerability profile and disease control. Transarterial Radioembolization (TARE) is also sim...

  Cancer is an abnormal cellular growth in a specific body region that is able to spread internally and cover other areas. If left untreated, it causes a number of life-threatening conditions that may even lead to fatality. World Health Organization  (WHO) notes cancer to be the second leading cause of death. An estimated 9.6 million deaths have occurred due to it in 2018 alone. That amounts to 1 in every 6 losses of lives. What is Prostate Cancer? Prostate cancer refers to the development of cancer in the prostate gland of the male reproductive organ . Its growth rate is observed to be highly inconsistent, with a majority of it being slow to form while some manifesting at a fairly rapid pace. But the fact that it may spread out towards other body areas, specifically bones and lymph nodes, is proven to be conclusive. Symptoms of Prostate Cancer: Early Warning Signs Prostate cancer may prove to be hard to detect due to it having zero or faint traces of initial sympt...