Kurdistan's doctors utilize modern cancer scan technology
234 views · Published 17 February 2017 · 2:29 · Indexed 29 October 2026
Channel: Rudaw English · 2017 · People & Blogs
For the first time, positron emission tomography (PET) scans are being used in the Kurdistan Region to help doctors detect and diagnose cancer. "We don't have to travel abroad now that we have that technology here. It has made it a lot easier for us," Rajab Darwesh, a cancer patient at Medya Diagnostic Center in Erbil, says. PET scans are mainly used to find tumors in the body. "The device takes two images that it combines. It both locates the tumor and identifies it. So it is both anatomical and functional, and it tells us the exact place of the tumor," Hemin Aziz, a medical technician explains. In the device's first day, eight people were given PET scan appointments.
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