What are examples of the uses of nuclear medicine?

What are examples of the uses of nuclear medicine?

Hossein Jadvar (Doctor) gives expert video advice on: How does nuclear medicine differ from other types of radiology?; What are the benefits and risks of nuclear medicine? and more...

Nuclear medicine is more than just diagnostic imaging. Most of it is diagnostic imaging, but we do actually do a lot of therapy with radioactive sources. One of the major areas is treatment of thyroid cancer, where we use radio iodine for treatment of the thyroid cancer. There are also radio traces available for bone palliation - in patients, for example, that have metastatic prostate cancer, which have bone pain in connection with metastatic disease. These radioactive materials or pharmaceuticals are used to alleviate some of their pain. Also, we can use nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals for treatment of low-grade lymphoma, and its role has been expanding especially recently.