A Step Closer to Cancer Therapy with the Help of Nuclear Medicine in Serbia – State Commissions Analysis of Possibility of Production of Radiopharmaceuticals

Only a few days after the signing of the agreement with Russia on the construction of a center for nuclear medicine in Serbia, the cabinet of the Serbian minister for innovations and technological development opened the tender for the preparation of the Study on Nuclear Medicine and the Production and Sale of Radiopharmaceuticals in Serbia.

Among other things, the study should encompass the possibility of the production and use of radionuclides in nuclear medicine in Serbia, an overview of the available equipment and staff, the possibilities of selling the produced radionuclides outside the country’s territory and an economic analysis of the entire investment.

According to the technical specifications of the tender, nuclear medicine is one of the specialized fields of radiology, where radioactive isotopes of selected elements (radionuclides) are used in order to diagnose or treat certain medical conditions, including cancer.

The most frequently used detection systems in nuclear medicine, it is added, are called gamma cameras.

– In therapy procedures, it is necessary to concentrate a sufficient quantity of radioactive materials, usually in the location of the tumor, so that the emitted radiation would destroy it or reduce its volume. Diagnostic techniques developed in nuclear medicine have great advantages compared to other modalities of diagnostics or therapy – the tender says.

The tender expires on December 20.

Ministarstvo nauke, tehnološkog razvoja i inovacija Republike Srbije

minister for innovations and technological development

Rosatom

Center for Nuclear Medicine

nuclear medicine

radiopharmacology

radionuclides

production

cancer

treatment

study

analysis