Pune: PET Scan to aid cancer patients in Sassoon Hospital
Pune: With an aim to extend affordable healthcare to cancer patients in the city, a PET-CT scan facility has been introduced by the BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital.
This facility is considered to be the first in the state to be established at a government hospital.
PET-CT scan is a procedure that combines the pictures from a positron emission tomography (PET) scan and a computed tomography (CT) scan. The PET and CT scans are done at the same time with the same machine. The combined scans give more detailed pictures of areas inside the body than either scan gives by itself.
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Therefore, the rates of these scans can range from 10,000 to 15,000 in private hospitals or centres depending on the test specification. Poor patients are usually excluded from those benefits due to the high rates.
In view of this, Sassoon hospital will provide facilities at affordable prices to poor patients not just in the Pune district but also in the neighbouring Satara, Ahmednagar, Solapur and Kolhapur districts.
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