Nuclear medicine in the Philippines has advanced in the past decades that could lead to more affordable treatment of various non-communicable diseases.
“Nuclear Medicine has developed a lot in the past two decades which is good news. We have improved a lot on the use of nuclear medicine technology in the diagnosis and staging of cancer. Also, now, it is being used in the cases of detecting dementia,” said Dr. Thomas Neil Pascual, an S&T Fellow from the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute in a TV interview.
One roadblock to fighting cancer is the high cost of diagnosis. One scan requires patients to shell out up to P100,000, a prohibitive cost that makes cancer staging and diagnostic procedures available to only those who can afford it. Helping PNRI bring to Filipinos closer to the dream of lower diagnostics and treatment costs is the Nuclear Medicine Research and Innovation Centre .
Once completed, the NMRIC will house a medical cyclotron and positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging center, which will make cancer detection, treatment, and management more accessible and affordable to Filipinos. “So far, we have improved technology, and the DOST-PNRI thinks it can do more by doing more research. Having this type of technology available to the Filipino people improved the management of different diseases such as cancer and dementia,” he said.
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