Havana, Cuba_ The V Fifth International Seminar and the Fifth National Workshop on the use and development of the isotope industry for health ends today in this capital with the participation of professionals from Latin America, the Caribbean, north America and Europe, Prensa Latina reports.

About 150 Cuban experts and more than 50 from Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spain and the United States, among others, deal with nuclear medical imaging, current trends in cardiology, and other issues.

As part of this last day, running at the Havana Riviera Hotel, a group of researchers from the Center for Isotopes (Centis by in Spanish), sponsor of the event, will give a lecture on the quality management services in Nuclear Medicine.

The current state of Nuclear Medicine in the Caribbean countries is characterized for the introduction of the tomography technology by positron emission which includes the acquisition of a cyclotron and the installation for the production of radiopharmaceuticals in the framework of the inversions of the Health Ministry to revitalize these services.

Cuban Scientists intensify the clinical investigations of diagnosis and treatment with biomolecule like mononuclear antibodies and peptides, with important advances.

The development in Biotechnology in the country also favors the investigations in the field of Radio pharmacology.

In the same way, the starting of a high productivity installation of Itrio 90, important therapeutic radionuclide, will help the development of the production of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in the country, together with the steady position of those with a diagnosis use.

The new center will improve the use in Cuba of therapeutic radiopharmaceutical for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, pain relief due to osseous metastasis,  rheumatoid arthritis  and hemophilia and and No Hodgking lymphocytes and other kind of tumors.

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