First ‘nuclear medicine’ to treat cancer in Cambodia

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Cambodia's National Cancer Centre at Calmette Hospital conducted its first nuclear medicine treatment workshop on Monday to create awareness about the treatment. Experts, meantime, recommend that Cambodia have a cancer registry to provide better patient care.

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital doctor Sobhan Vinjamuri said Cambodia must establish a national cancer registry.

Director of Cambodia’s National Cancer Centre Eav Sokha said the centre has offered cutting-edge treatment, such as nuclear medicine, hematopoietic stem cell transplantations, chemotherapy and pediatric oncology since January this year.

“Even doctors don’t know what it is or how to use it. So, we want to raise awareness and increase treatments."

“Maybe [people] don’t know. And, maybe doctors don’t know either that [nuclear medicine] is available at our hospital,” said Sokha.

Only 30 patients were admitted to the national cancer center while an estimated 600 people nationally are affected by thyroid cancer from May to October.

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Source: Phnom Penh Post