Cancer treatment requires many specialties to work together. For this reason, various surgical branches should work together in the fight against cancer. Therefore, oncology centers that will evaluate cancer from every angle are valuable organizations in the fight against cancer, the plague of today. Reyap Hospital Istanbul is one of the few health institutions where a multidisciplinary treatment approach in the field of oncology can be applied under one roof.
As Reyap Hospital Istanbul Oncology Center, we serve as one of the important centers of our country and Europe in terms of diagnosis and application of appropriate treatment methods.
Varian TrueBeam is a linear accelerator device used in radiotherapy treatment with the principle of "targeted irradiation". TrueBeam can offer treatment with advanced techniques with image guidance (IGRT). While the cancerous cells are destroyed and treated in all types of cancer, healthy neighboring organs are protected at the maximum level. TrueBeam is a linear accelerator device with state-of-the-art technology, providing quality treatment with a patient-specific breath monitoring system, and capable of SRS/SBRT (radiosurgery) treatment.
PET-CT is an advanced technological imaging method created by the combination of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT). PET-CT plays an active role especially in the field of oncology, as well as cardiac and neurological disorders. Diagnosis of cancer diseases, treatment planning, and post-treatment evaluation processes are performed with the PET-CT imaging method, which has low radiation and high-speed scanning of the body from beginning to end.
In oncological diseases, PET-CT imaging is of great importance in the early diagnosis of cancer, treatment planning, staging, detection of recurrences, detection of metastases, planning of radiotherapy treatment, and evaluation of treatment success.
Cancer types that PET-CT is most effective; lung cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, head and neck cancers, colorectal cancers, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, gynecological cancers, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, lymphoma, melanoma.
It has been observed that cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal warm chemotherapy prolong life in tumors with peritoneal spread. Cytoreduction (reducing cancer cell load) surgery involves removing part or all of the membrane surrounding the abdomen and then destroying tumor cells in other areas with heated chemotherapy (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy).
Private Reyap Istanbul Hospital offers the most up-to-date diagnosis and treatment services with its Metaplastic Breast Surgery Center. In our center, in addition to the treatment of breast diseases and breast cancer, breast-conserving surgery for the preservation of the appearance of the breast during the treatment is performed in our hospital, and psychological support is also provided for many patients to overcome this process more easily.
Our center provides health services with a tumor council and multidisciplinary care by doctors specialized in breast cancer in a fully equipped environment.
Reconstruction (repair) operations, in which the breast is reconstructed due to breast cancer, are generally called aesthetic plastic and reconstructive surgical treatment methods.
In our center, breast reconstruction surgeries are performed simultaneously with breast removal (mastectomy) surgery. In this way, our patients have a new breast without feeling the deficiency when they come out of the surgery and do not have to experience the psychological distress that this process will cause.
In this area, there are many treatment options available to the patient's needs; Correction of breast asymmetry, breast equalization, skin enlargement, and flap breast repair are the prominent treatment methods in this area.
In our Interventional Radiology Department, innovative treatments for many types of cancer are performed by our expert oncologists using imaging devices. Diagnostic and treatment methods such as biopsy needles, ablation electrodes, intravenous catheters, and globules loaded with radiation or chemotherapy drugs are used in our department.
In our hospital, our specialists reach the targeted cancer tissue with the help of devices, the necessary drug is given directly to the tumor, and the treatment processes of cancer patients are completed. In our department, cancers of the lung, pancreas, prostate, liver, kidney, thyroid, breast, colon, and rectum are treated; Methods of cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC therapy, intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAK), chemoembolization, radioembolization, and isolated infusions are used.
Reyap Hospital Istanbul Genetic Diseases Evaluation Center; Physicians who are experts in their field, advanced technological infrastructure, a multidisciplinary approach where all branches come together, serve with a personalized holistic treatment approach. Our center provides genetic counseling, hereditary disease risk screenings, and genetic tests to patients who may be in the risk group due to their history of cancer and other genetic diseases.
We can list hereditary cancer (oncological) genetic tests performed at Reyap Hospital Istanbul Genetic Diseases Evaluation Center as follows:
Smart medicine application provides targeted results in cancer treatment. Many medicines are included in the category of biological medicines, defined as smart medicines. Among these, tyrosine kinase inhibitors and monoclonal antibodies come to the fore.
Classical chemotherapies are more effective on proliferating cells. It finds and blocks cells that are in the replication phase, and kills them. Targeted drugs, act directly on that cancer cell, even if the cell has not multiplied, or they work to block a different structure in that cancer cell.
Immunotherapy is a treatment method used in cancer treatment in addition to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. This method supports the resistance of the body of the person carrying the cancer cell, increases the immunity, and tries to destroy the cancer cells in this way. Some immunotherapy drugs deliver radiotherapy and chemotherapy directly to cancer.
The types of cancer that immunotherapy effects are listed as follows; Non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, skin cancers (melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma), Genitourinary cancers (kidney and bladder cancer), some gastrointestinal cancers (esophagus, stomach, liver cancer), triple-negative breast cancer, head and neck cancers.
Chemotherapy (drug therapy) is a type of cancer treatment in which one or more anti-cancer drugs are used. Chemotherapy can be given curatively, that is, to ensure positive progress, or it can be used to prolong life or control symptoms. Chemotherapy can be administered to the patient in many different ways. Chemotherapy drugs have tablet forms, as well as forms that can be administered intravenously or directly into the abdominal cavity. The routes of administration of chemotherapy drugs can be listed as follows; intramuscular or subcutaneous injection, intraarterial injection, intraperitoneal injection, intravenous injection, topical and oral.