Nuclear Oncology

This is a particularly suitable test to detect disease at musculoskeletal and central nervous system, although useful in numerous other malignancies.

Central nervous system
This technique is more sensitive than CT for detection of intracranial lesions. Similarly helps treatment planning, either surgery or radiation. It also helps to differentiate recurrent tumor lesions of secondary injury to treatment relapsed in the area.

Locomotor
The possibility of detecting bone lesions in adjacent structures (joints, ligaments, etc.). Has become the technique of choice when assessing the presence of lesions at this device and plan to conduct therapy. At cancer is the main diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of spinal cord compression, a nervous system secondary to abnormal bone and soft tissue to be treated as soon as possible to avoid definitive and significant neurological deficits.

Liver and biliary
Is more sensitive than other techniques for detecting metastatic lesions in the liver, just as used to differentiate benign lesions which are not.

Adrenal
Differentiating between adenomas and metastases, this is very important in certain types of tumors where adrenal involvement may be frequent and where know if it really is a metastasis or not, I mean the patient treatment and outcome variations.

Prostate
Values very well the anatomy of the area and allows more realistic staging of the tumor in the face to suggest that treatment is best in each case.

Gynecology
In the case of tumors of the uterus and cervix helps us pinpoint the local involvement and which patients will benefit from a surgical or other therapeutic approaches.

Mama
The usefulness of MRI in the evaluation of the breast includes a wide range of situations, on one hand, the ability to detect more early lesions than mammography in women at high risk of breast cancer family history; On the other hand, evaluation of the gland and axilla before the surgical approach, helps make decisions to avoid aggressive surgery in cases that did not need it and vice versa.

Do you feel any discomfort while performing this test?
In some patients, using magnetic resonance imaging can cause claustrophobia due to the structure of the device. Better information on what is the evidence, the benefits you can get the person of its implementation and a brief explanation of the technique to avoid making some of the suspensions of conducting such tests. In some cases where such recommendations are not effective and where the performance of the test is mandatory for the subsequent management of the patient, we must resort to sedation / anesthesia for their implementation.