Nuclear medicine department of Institut Kanser Negara (IKN) - 3 years in service: overview of diagnostic radiopharmaceutical preparations

In Malaysia, the field of radiopharmacy has grown in importance parallel with expansion of nuclear medicine services that has expanded to more than 6 Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH) hospitals as well as private hospitals including Institut Kanser Negara (IKN). (i) To identify commonly used radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic in IKN between 2014 - 2016. (ii) To determine the usage of radiopharmaceuticals m diagnostic and number of patients benefited from the field between year 2014 - 2016 Audit based study in collaboration with IKN. First, identify contact person (IKN). Then, acquire consent and ethical approval from UiTM and NMRR. IKN provide necessary data which will be compiled and analyzed using Microsoft Excel 2010. The number of patient's appointment increasing from 2014 to 2015 (39.8%) and keep increasing up to 20.84% in 2016. The most commonly used radiopharmaceuticals is F-18 FDG followed by Tc-99m.Tc-99m Tetrofosmin has the highest demand and supply followed by Tc-99m MDP and Tc-99m Pertechnetate. Radioiodine preparations has upward trend over the year. However, Cr-51 EDT A does not have any significant changes over the year. The radiopharmacy field in Malaysia will keep growing progressively as the demand for its service has increasing trend over the year.