Lippe Lemgo Clinic

• Radiation Therapy Department
• Oncology and Hematology Department

Lippe Lemgo Medical Center was founded in 1998. Today the Clinic consists of 15 specialized departments.

The Hospital is located 90 km from Hannover Airport and 180 km from Düsseldorf Airport.

• Specialized Center for Cancer Treatment. Oncologists of the Hospital have been treating patients with oncology for more than 20 years. Lemgo physicians perform complicated operations to remove the pancreatic tumors. Patients from all over Germany come to the Clinic to undergo this procedure.
• Experienced physicians. The Medical Center employs doctors and professors, who take top positions in the list of the best doctors in Germany according to the Focus magazine rating.

Focus "TOP regional clinics in Germany 2018"

In 2018 Lippe Network was included in the rating of the best hospitals in the region according to the Focus magazine.

German Cancer Society DKG

Lippe Lemgo Center of Visceral Oncology is certified by the German Cancer Society for the treatment of stomach, intestine, and pancreatic cancers. The Hospital is fitted with the state-of-the-art equipment and employs qualified doctors to treat patients with tumors in the digestive tract.

Every 2nd onco-patient undergoes treatment in the Radiation Therapy Department. A linear accelerator of the latest generation is used here. The device irradiates one tissue area in 1-5 minutes.

Radiation therapy is prescribed for patients with malignant and benign tumors located in the head, thoracic organs, mammary glands, pancreas, rectum, prostate, and bones.

Types of radiotherapy used by doctors at Lippe Lemgo:

• IGRT - irradiation under visual control. It is used for "moving tumors" - lung or prostate cancer. The radiation beam adjusts to the patient's movements and affects only cancerous cells. This negates the damage to healthy tissues.
• IMRT - intensively modulated radiotherapy. Doctors use IMRT to treat prostate, intestinal tumors, head, and neck cancer. The technique directs the maximum dose of radiation to the affected area bypassing healthy organs.
• Brachytherapy for prostate cancer. Doctors put radioactive "seeds" in the prostate gland. They affect nearby malignant cells increasing procedure effectiveness.

Radiotherapy at Lippe Lemgo Medical Center, Germany

The Hospital is certified by the German Cancer Society. It guarantees effective cancer treatment according to the latest medical guidelines. Doctors specialize in treatment of such diseases as:

• leukemia, Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, plasmacytoma (bone marrow tumor);
• breast, lung and stomach cancer;
• tumors of the ear, throat, and nose.

The main treatment methods used by Lippe Lemgo doctors:

• Surgical removal of tumors. Doctors carry out sparing organ-preserving operations - neoplasms are removed through a few-centimeter wide holes (the size depends on tumor location). Such operations leave nearly not noticeable scars, the recovery process is faster than after open intervention.
• High-dose chemotherapy combined with autologous stem cell transplantation. A patient is prescribed high-dosage сhemo that destroys malignant cells in blood and lymph nodes. After the course physicians transplant stem cells to restore normal hematopoiesis. This is an effective treating technique of lymphoma, leukemia, and plasmacytoma.
• Endoscopic operations for cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. Onco-surgeons remove neoplasms in the gastrointestinal tract without skin incisions, through natural openings. Applying this method, it is possible to remove tumors in the intestine or esophagus. Among the advantages of the procedure are absence of scars and minimal recovery period.
• Radioimmunotherapy in combination with radiotherapy. The procedure is prescribed for patients with melanoma, brain glioma, lymphoma, prostate cancer. Radioimmunotherapy drugs destroy only malignant cells and do not affect healthy ones.

Visceral Cancer Center is a specialized unit for abdominal cancer treatment

Doctors of the Center treat patients with stomach, intestines, and pancreas tumors. Physicians perform more than 150 operations on the rectum annually.

Doctors of Lippe Lemgo have been successfully performing pancreatic cancer operations for over 20 years. This is a complex procedure that lasts up to 6 hours.

A patient lives in a single or double room. Each room has a TV and internet connection. There are a bathrobe, a towel, bath accessories, and a hairdryer in the ward.

The Clinic has an International Patients Department. Coordinators help foreign patients to undergo examination and treatment, hire a transfer, find an interpreter, and organize leisure.

Two-person ward at Lippe Lemgo Hospital