ONCOLOGY

This is a speciality focused on the surgical treatment of cancer. Cancer is a complex disease that requires a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and treatment, involving disciplines such as medical oncology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine and pathology.

In addition to surgically removing cancer, surgical oncologists also perform palliative operations to control pain, improve the patient's comfort and manage cancer-related symptoms and side effects.

Oncology surgeons play an active role not only in the treatment phase but also in the diagnosis of cancer, which can be completely eliminated with early detection.

It is important that oncological surgery is performed by surgeons specialised in this field. Studies show that cancer operations performed with a multidisciplinary perspective have a positive effect on patients' survival rates and quality of life.

In our hospital's General Surgery Unit, breast, thyroid, stomach, pancreatic, colon and anal cancers are treated by Surgical Oncology specialists using modern methods (laparoscopic and oncoplastic).

Radiation oncology is a speciality that studies the effects of ionising radiation on cancer cells and tumours and investigates the treatment methods delivered with this radiation.

Radiation oncology (radiotherapy) is one of the three main methods used in cancer treatment. The other two are cancer surgery and medical oncology.

Which Diseases Does Radiation Oncology Treat?

All types of cancer are treated in this field. 50–70% of cancer patients receive treatment in a radiation oncology clinic at some point in their lives.

• Breast cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Lung cancer
• Brain tumours
• Bladder tumours
• Skin cancer
• Laryngeal cancer
• Uterine and cervical cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Lymphoma
• Pancreatic cancer
• Bone metastases
• Brain metastases
• Liver metastases
• Lymph node metastases