Tuesday, 14 June 2022 – 04:04 WIB
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VIVA – So far nuclear tend to be viewed from the side of the impact of the hazard. In fact, nuclear radiation can help to identify and destroy some deadly diseases such as diagnosing heart, kidney, to cancer.
Therefore, nuclear medicine emerged in the healthcare industry. However, hospitals that provide nuclear medicine services are still few in Indonesia.
One of them is Mandaya Royal Hospital Puri, which launched a nuclear medicine service center with a focus on treating hyperthyroidism, cancer thyroidand disorders of the thyroid gland.
Well, the preferred therapeutic method is Iodine 131 Radioactive Thyroid Ablation (RAI) which aims to shrink to eliminate the entire thyroid gland that shows malignancy such as thyroid cancer.
“One of the advantages of this therapeutic method is that it is able to treat thyroid cancer in both children and adults without surgery or surgery,” said the Head of the Nuclear Medicine Association, Eko Purnomo, Monday, June 13, 2022.
According to him, the thyroid ablation procedure itself is not complicated, the patient will be asked to drink radioactive iodine 131 which is colorless, odorless and tasteless like taking drugs in general, then the patient will be placed in an isolation room for three to five days depending on the dose given.
Meanwhile, the Marketing and Communications Director of Mandaya Hospital Group, Erwin, said that the cost for thyroid ablation treatment was around Rp. Whole Body Scan (WBS) starting from IDR 3 million.
“Thyroid Ablation Rooms are considered very rare. Because there are more than 3 thousand hospitals in Indonesia, there are only 20. One of them is Mandaya Royal Hospital Puri,” he said.
Mandaya Hospital’s nuclear medicine services are also present as a solution for the treatment of various other diseases such as neuroblastoma cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer and to help with other medical procedures. diagnostic, bone scanrenal renogram, intestinal bleeding, cardiac, and eye dacryocystography.
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