Using radioactive material in medicine


Iodine-131 is one of the oldest radioactive materials used in medicine, and is used to both diagnose and treat thyroid cancer. — 123rf.com

“What is nuclear medicine? Is it part of radiotherapy?” That was what I overheard a patient asking her relative outside my clinic door on one of my clinic days.

Not surprisingly, despite these services being available in the country for more than two decades, many Malaysians still do not know what nuclear medicine is all about.

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