Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses the process of radioactive decay to monitor and affect the biological processes at the cellular and molecular life body. Employs the technique of the introduction of radioactive chemicals complexes very specific, called tracer, the body that can be detected and followed in real-time action with a gamma camera non invasive for image processing, diagnosis and treatment of disease. As the technology and the availability of promising advances in nuclear medicine, the role of molecular picture and therapy teams growing, especially in the treatment of cancer.
There is a growing change in medicine to a more personalized approach to cancer so far has been directed to an "average" patient therapy. However, medications that work so that a patient may be ineffective or even harmful to another. Molecular images have the potential to distinguish those who can benefit from a treatment program in particular those that would not positively respond as well as allow earlier changes in treatment when necessary. It has the potential to play an essential role to display individual variations in disease diagnosis and customized therapeutic strategies.
Radionucletide therapy combines molecular molecular therapy cells sick with more effective medicines and less toxic target images. There have been impressive successes in the treatment of lymphoma with many reports of favourable long-term results and positive response rates. There have been reports of patients with intractable otherwise be cured by these new individualised approaches guided by molecular.
With the promise that medicine nuclear has to treat cancer with success, more secure, there is a need of expanded access to ensure a treatment for the most needy. With the formation of increased therapy and nuclear medicine equipment availability, the future of cancer patients can look much brighter.
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