First ‘nuclear medicine’ to treat cancer in Cambodia
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