The facility’s Cape Town campus last week kicked off phase one of the South African Isotope Facility’s construction, which will see the volume of these products being manufactured expanded in the coming months. Picture: Supplied.

Ithemba labs

iThemba LABS expands infrastructure to help boost production of radioisotopes

Phase one of the establishment of the South African Isotope Facility kicked into first gear with the arrival of the cyclotron to the site in Faure, Cape Town,...

Stage 4 cancer patient lauds medical advances as they help her defy disease

Hannelie Snyman (56) from Johannesburg was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of eleven and after having been in remission for 34 years, doctors in 2011 discovered that she had developed stage-3 breast cancer. In 2016, she was given three years to live after the cancer metastised to stage four.

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Inside iThemba LABS' research quest for better cancer diagnostics & therapies

Scientists at iThemba LABS in Cape Town are applying their knowledge in nuclear medicine to improve cancer treatment while preserving as much healthy tissue as possible.

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Ithemba labs

iThemba LABS expands infrastructure to help boost production of radioisotopes

Stage 4 cancer patient lauds medical advances as they help her defy disease

Inside iThemba LABS' research quest for better cancer diagnostics & therapies

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