Some types of cancer such as head and neck cancer; only radiotherapy may be used. Some advantages of using a PET scan is that, it is usually painless, it can help detect, treat, or prognosticate the outcome for a variety of conditions, unlike most other imaging types, it can show how different parts of the body are working and can detect problems much earlier, and it can also check how far a cancer has spread and how well treatment is working.[1] Although, gamma rays could be used to kill cancer cells, exposure to gamma radiation kill both cancerous and normal cells leading to side effects. So, the side effects of the patients are: hair loss, loss of blood cells, sore skin, diarrhoea, or even become
Some types of cancer such as head and neck cancer; only radiotherapy may be used. Some advantages of using a PET scan is that, it is usually painless, it can help detect, treat, or prognosticate the outcome for a variety of conditions, unlike most other imaging types, it can show how different parts of the body are working and can detect problems much earlier, and it can also check how far a cancer has spread and how well treatment is working.[1] Although, gamma rays could be used to kill cancer cells, exposure to gamma radiation kill both cancerous and normal cells leading to side effects. So, the side effects of the patients are: hair loss, loss of blood cells, sore skin, diarrhoea, or even become