The Korea Cancer Center Hospital (KCCH) is the cancer specialist hospital that has been devoted to the clinical care of cancer.
Korea Cancer Center Hospital has been equipped with latest medical equipments with various ranging from cobalt curers to neutron cancer curers and microtron curers. They have been operating the Cancer Prevention Test Center which is equipped with newest and high technology PET/CT.
KCCH is performing cyber knife surgery and expanding the range of bloodless operation to the whole body.
Korea Cancer Center Hospital promising to "continue to share in the pain of patients and do its best for their fast recovery as well as provide high-quality services for patients to feel at home".
ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE
KCCH has 50 years experiences and has been successfully treated international patients suffering from cancer. Also, they has showing best medical services with low cost compared to other medical institutions.
KCCH is suggesting to be free from fear of cancer with the longest history of specialized cancer hospital.
Gamma Knife and cyber knife: what is the difference?
This is a guest post by Amanda who writes on behalf of the San Diego Gamma Knife Center, a shared resource for the San Diego neurosurgical and radiation oncology community. we do not own any copyright for this post and this post is only for knowledge purposes. (source link)
Gamma Knife surgery has become one of the most popular and extensively
tested types of what is known as “stereotactic radiosurgery”, or SRS.
SRS (as depicted in the accompanying illustration) is a
non-invasive medical procedure that uses highly focused radiation beams
as a treatment for brain tumors and other kinds of intracranial
maladies. Gamma Knife surgery has been used for treating trigeminal
neuralgia, and the treatment of both benign and malignant brain tumors.
But the Gamma Knife is not the only SRS system available. In recent
years, the popularity and acceptance of radiosurgery procedures has led
to the development of newer SRS systems. The most well known among these
newer systems is the Cyber Knife. Both the Gamma Knife and the Cyber
Knife can be highly effective in treating many of the same maladies, but
they operate on patients in fundamentally different ways. Here is a
brief comparison of the two SRS systems.
How They Work
During Gamma Knife surgery, patients undergo a CT
scan and sometimes also an MRI scan prior to the actual procedure. These
scans are used by a team of specialists to plan out the radiosurgery in
minute detail. Once the planning is finished, the patient is brought
over to the Gamma Knife table and his/her head is fixed onto a rigid
head frame that automatically positions the target area of the brain in
the spot where the radiation beams will intersect. The Gamma Knife
system then delivers approximately 201 highly focused cobalt-60 source
radiation beams into a single target area of the brain. The beams are
delivered all at once, multiple times and in short bursts. The procedure
can last as little as 30 minutes and usually a single session is all
that’s needed to complete the treatment.
Unlike the Gamma Knife system, which is designed exclusively for use in
non-invasive brain surgery, the Cyber Knife system is designed to
conduct SRS on lesions anywhere in the body, including organs that move
with the patient’s respiration. It can do so because, unlike the Gamma
Knife, it does not deliver the radiation beams to the target area
simultaneously. Rather, it uses a single, high-energy photon beam that’s
attached to a robot arm. The arm moves to different positions during
the surgery, aiming at the target area from different angles. A head
frame is not necessary either. Instead, patients are secured to the
treatment table with a plastic mask that helps the Cyber Knife update
the position of the skull in real time, allowing the robot arm to
compensate for patient movement. More than one treatment session is
sometimes required.
Accuracy and Efficiency
Both systems can be highly effective in
the treatment of brain tumors and other intracranial maladies, but the
Gamma Knife has a slight advantage when it comes to accuracy (0.5mm or
less, as compared with the Cyber Knife, which can have an accuracy of
almost 1mm). Also, the smaller size of Gamma Knife collimators makes it
less likely that healthy brain tissue surrounding the target area will
be damaged during surgery. The advantage of the Cyber Knife, however, is
that its guided robot arm allows it greater versatility to treat other
areas of the body and certain regions of the brain that are more
difficult to treat using the head-frame method of the Gamma Knife.
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<Medical Information - Colorectal Cancer>
Colorectal cancer is a cancer from uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine), or in the appendix.
1. Signs and symptoms
- worsening constipation
- blood in the stool
- loss of appetite
- loss of weight
- anausea or vomiting
2. Treatment methods
The treatment of colorectal cancer can be aimed at curation or palliation. The decision on treatment method depends on various factors, including the patient's health and preferences, as well as the stage of the tumour.
-early stage of cancer
:When colorectal cancer is caught early, tumor can be curative by surgery.
-later stage of cancer
:when it is detected at later stages or metastases are present, the treatment often aim to palliation, to relieve symptoms caused by the tumour and keep the patient as comfortable as possible.
3. Prognosis
Survival is directly related to detection and the type of cancer involved, but overall is poor for symptomatic cancers, as they are typically quite advanced.
Survival rates for early stage detection is about 5 times that of late stage cancers.
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