Oncology

The Bumrungrad International Hospital offers a specialized multidisciplinary approach in diagnosing and treating cancer, with an expert team of oncologists, radiologists, hematologists and more collaborating to provide patients with the best quality of life. 

Horizon Regional Cancer Center

Overview

The Bumrungrad International Hospital provides comprehensive cancer care and treatment by a multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, assessment of treatment plan and management of possible complications, emotional support, nutritional care, pain management, and close monitoring of possible recurrence.

Our Focus

Provide advanced care science-based multidiscipline approach to help patients live longer and healthier.
  • Conditions
    • Bladder Cancer
    • Breast Cancer
    • Colon & Rectal Cancer
    • Endometrial Cancer
    • Gastric Cancer
    • Head & Neck Cancer
    • Kidney Cancer
    • Leukemia
    • Liver Cancer
    • Lung Cancer
    • Melanoma
    • Metatstatic Cancer
    • Neuroblastoma
    • Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
    • Pancreatic Cancer
    • Plasma Cell Neoplasm/Multiple Myeloma
    • Prostate Cancer
    • Recurrent Cancer
    • Retinoblastoma
    • Thyroid Cancer
    • Ovarian Cancer
    • Osteosarcoma
    • Vaginal Cancer
    • Wilms Tumor & Other Childhood Kidney Tumors
  • Treatment
    • Cryosurgery
    • Hyperthermia
    • Lasers
    • Photodynamic
    • Chemotherapy Drug Administration
    • Targeted Therapy
    • Immunotherapy
    • Oncosurgery
    • Blood / Platelet Transfusion
    • Radiation Therapy
    • Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)
    • Brachytherapy
    • Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation (PBSCT)
    • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Medical Equipment
    • Dual-energy linear accelerator
    • X-ray simulator to precisely identify the locations (fields) for treatment, which is connected to a CT scanner and MRI machin 
    • Radiation shield to protect healthy tissue and organs located close to the areas being treated
    • X-ray computed tomography (CT scanner)
    • 1.5 tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner
      • Nuclear medicine including full body examination 
      • Ultrasound and x-ray
    • Biograph 64 PET/CT scanner
    • Four-dimensional CT imaging for planning treatment of cancerous tumor that moves with breath
    • Equipment to control breathing during radiation and CT scan
    • ​Monaco radiation treatment planning machine that uses 3D CRT, IMRT and VMAT
  • Diagnostics
    • Mammogram
    • Pap smear
    • Colonoscopy
    • Endoscopy
    • Low-dose CT scan
    • Testing for tumor markers and carrying out biopsies in a laboratory that meets international standards
  • Other Services
    • Care of colostomy
    • Care of implanted venous access device (port-a-cath)
    • Nutrition consultation
    • Psychological support
    • Palliative care of terminally ill patients
    • Cancer support group
    • Provide information and organize seminars about cancer

Doctors & Medical Team

 
Oncologist Diagnostic radiologist
Hematologist-oncologist Pathologist
Bone marrow specialist Anesthesiologist
Surgical oncologist Clinical nurse coordinator
Gynecologic oncologist Pharmacist
Pediatric hematologist-oncologist Medical physicist
Pediatric bone marrow specialist Radiology technologist
Radiation oncologist Dietician

Key Specialists

 

Esperance Integrative Treatment

 
What is Esperance for oncology?
 
It’s an integrative cancer clinic which collaborates with cancer experts translating scientific innovation into therapy implementation. At Esperance, up-to-date research fuels our patient-centered approach, together-driving our mission to provide scientifically based holistic cancer care. Esperance translates medical research into cutting-edge treatments while minimizing the harsh adverse effects.Esperance provides integrative cancer treatments and prevention methods and strives to improve the quality of life for patients with an array of supportive care and side effect management programs.
What is distinctive about Esperance for oncology?
 
  • Innovative, integrative cancer care
With the patient’s quality of life at the heart of our approach, Esperance strives to provide targeted treatments that are tailored to the patient’s exact needs.
 
  • Tackle cancer from every angle
As a leader in integrative cancer care, Esperance strives to provide the best patient care available as we prevent, control and treat cancer.
 
  • Devoted to expert integrative cancer care
In partnership with Bumrungrad International Hospital, Esperance sets the standard of excellence in integrated cancer treatments and prevention. With an integrative approach to cancer care, our team of dedicated experts develop and adopt innovative ways to minimize cancer’s devastating effects.


Esperance Programs

Primary Cancer Treatment
  • Cytotoxic Therapy
A treatment approach that kills cancer cells by using anticancer preparations, including but not limited to chemotherapy and the use of botanical agents.
 
  • Heat and Laser Based Therapy
A selection of physical methods, such as heat, laser and ultrasound are used to target, shrink and destroy cancer cells.
 
  • Immunotherapy
A type of cancer treatment that boosts the body’s natural defenses to fight cancer.
 
  • Precision Medicine
An approach that helps select the most effective treatments based on a patients genetic and molecular information.
 
  • Metabolic Therapy

Treatments to help weaken the cancer cells’ resistance ability and capacity to spread by inhibiting cancer cells' energy production.

Supportive Care

Fight cancer with our support
 
  • Detailed nutrition consultation
 
  • Effective pain management
 
  • Psycho-social support services

When appropriately addressed it leads to improved immune function, decrease in muscle loss and improves overall patient outcomes. Learn more about our array of supportive care services and start navigating from treatment to recovery.
Prevention
 

The best way to fight cancer is to prevent it
 

  • Liquid Biopsy
A non-invasive way of monitoring an individual’s cancer status, risk or treatment performance.
 
  • Tumor Markers
The analysis of tumor markers may suggest the presence of cancer, helping medical oncologists to monitor therapy progression.
 
  • Immune Profile
An immune profile helps predict the patient’s responses to immunotherapy and monitor the progress of the treatment.
 
  • Next-generation Sequencing

A tool that allows oncologists to discover significant functional mutations, genetic changes and pathways.

Detox
 

Improve your sense of well-being and quality of life with detoxification
 

  • Customized Chelation
A therapy that helps remove toxic heavy metal compounds and organic acids with the usage of agents that bind on to the offenders so they can be expelled from the body.
 
  • Far-infrared Sauna
A type of sauna that uses special frequencies of infrared light to create heat, which helps carry away specific toxins.
 
  • Colon Hydrotherapy
The colon is an important detoxification center in the body. Barriers to its function come in the form of endotoxins (toxic substances that are a result of bacterial breakdown). To remove endotoxins sterile water is introduced to the colon in a calm environment.
For more information, please visit: https://www.esperance.com/

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