DStv Channel 403 Sunday, 24 November 2024

Discussion | Cancer Diagnosis | Huge gap in use of PET-CT scans in SA

 

JOHANNESBURG - New research has identified a significant gap in the use of PET-CT scans in the diagnosis and management of cancer in South Africa. 

Only 20,000 such scans are performed annually in the private and public sectors. 

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This is seen as a drop in the ocean, as the UK performs ten times this number and Australia, 118,000 scans a tear. 

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Life Healthcare is now calling for PET-CT scans to be standard in South African clinical practice. Let’s discuss this further. 

Oncology Clinical Lead at Life Healthcare, Dr Holger Wellmann, spoke to eNCA. 

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