What are the benefits and risks of nuclear medicine?

What are the benefits and risks of nuclear medicine?

Well, the benefits of nuclear medicine is quite a lot, and it has contributed to the well being of humans for long time through helping with diagnosis and especially more recently helping with therapy in many of the conditions that humans suffer. For example, thyroid cancer and more recently lymphoma. The risks are actually compared to the benefits that we gain from nuclear medicine, and it's actually quite minimal. There is a radiation risk but that's also very small, and it's approximately the same level you receive from natural sources. And there's very little side effects associated with the administration of radio pharmaceuticals if any, and therefore the benefit to risk ratio for nuclear medicine is tremendous.