This is good news in the middle of the medical desert.. The Guillaume de Varye private hospital in Saint-Doulchard (Cher) is now equipped with a new Tepscan (or Petscan, in English). “It is a device that is coupled with a high-tech scannerexplains Michel Labro, the new director of the establishment. It is imaging equipment that is used for diagnostic purposes, especially in the field of cancer. It improves the detection of small tumor lesions of less than four millimeters”.
Guest of France Bleu Berry this Tuesday, May 10, he indicates that “it is useful, essential equipment in a territory like ours where 1,800 new cancers are detected each year”.
It will meet a need for proximity and make up for lost time in terms of medical imaging
This equipment joins that of the nuclear medicine center which was already equipped with a first Tepscan. “Doctors are counting on 4,000 examinations per year, in addition to the first Tepscanbelieves Michel Labro. We want to give appointments within 24 hours.. He adds : “This equipment will make it possible to be extremely reactive in relation to the examinations which are requested and to anticipate, to be faster, in any case on the treatments which will be defined”.