St. Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou

Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou was founded in 2005. Today — it’s one of the most extensive facilities for treating cancer serving patients from the USA, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and other countries.

The hospital is located 32 km away from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.

• Doctors accept even the most severe patients — at the stages 1-4. Only people who can’t come through the flight because of health condition are the exception.
• Innovative techniques. Guangzhou Cancer Hospital team provides treatment with the newest methods, including cryotherapy (exposing a tumor with cold temperatures), brachytherapy (contact radiotherapy), NanoKnife procedure.
• Oriental medicine. If patients inquiry, oncologists combine European and Chinese treatment methods to overcome the consequences of the therapy more quickly and improving the whole condition.

Cancer management in Modern Hospital Guangzhou includes both traditional methods as surgery, chemotherapy, tumor irradiation, and unconventional as oriental healthcare techniques.

Minimally invasive techniques are the most extensively used — they aim to affect tumors without incisions. 18 of these methods are available here. Among them are:

Chemoembolization

The chemo agent is directly delivered to a tumor affecting it and sparing neighboring tissues. Doctors inject a catheter with chemo agent to the vessel which feeds cancer. This is how substances do not spread throughout the body and do not cause so many side effects as intravenous chemotherapy.

The method is effective for treating tumors in the lung, liver, breast, nasopharynx, colon, thyroid, stomach, prostate.

Cryotherapy

Oncologists destruct the tumor with temperature change. First, doctors affect the tumor with extremely low temperature (from -120 ℃ to -180 °C), and then they sharply increase it - this change causes tissue necrosis.

The method has the following advantages:

• works for tumors located next to vessels that cannot be surgically removed
• allows you to destroy the tumors 5 cm in diameter (equal to a tennis ball)
• does not require extensive incisions and extended hospitalization;
• the method is safe and suitable for elderly patients.

Doctors use cryotherapy for tumors in the breast, lung, liver, prostate, kidney, thyroid, and others.

Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy is one of the methods of tumor irradiation. Doctors inject the catheter with radioactive seeds. They are located maximally possible to the tumor, and therefore the treatment effect is much better than standard percutaneous radiotherapy. After the session, a doctor disposes of these radioactive elements.

Brachytherapy is effective for lung, esophagus, prostate, breast, and uterus cancer.

The method has such advantages:

• shorter treatment in comparison with a standard radiotherapy
• healthy tissues are less affected.

NanoKnife

The NanoKnife system destroys tumors with radiofrequency. Radiooncologists insert electrodes inside the tumor under ultrasound guidance with the following voltage supplying. The procedure is performed under general anesthesia.

NanoKnife is used for pancreas, liver, intestine, kidney, and lung cancer.

The advantages of the method are:

• a short session — the procedure is performed 5 minutes for every 3 cm of the tumor
• healthy surrounding tissues are preserved.

If a patient requests, doctors in St Stamford Modern Cancer Hospital combine European treatment with traditional Chinese therapeutic procedures. Oriental medicine in China counts over 1,000 years practicing. Doctors believe that it improves the mental and physical conditions and allow coping with depression, anxiety, insomnia, and other side effects of a fight with cancer.

Some of the Chinese medicine methods:

• physiotherapy — massages and exercises
• treatment of herbal infusions
• acupuncture
• inhalation.

A patient can stay together with relatives. The hospital offers 2-place standard and VIP wards.

Standard ward for 2 people

VIP ward