Service Category: Oncology or Cancer Treatments

Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is a surgical procedure that involves cutting away a section of the prostate.

Transurethral resection of a bladder tumour or TURBT is a treatment for bladder tumours. 

Thyroid cancer is a rare type of cancer that affects the thyroid gland, a small gland at the base of the neck that produces hormones.

Stomach cancer is cancer that’s found anywhere in the stomach. The stomach is part of the digestive system. It helps you digest food.

Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SABR) is a non-invasive procedure used to treat tumours affecting the brain, which aims to achieve similar results as surgery.

Also known as Abdominoperineal excision of rectum (APR) is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of rectum and anal canal along with the blood supply and associated lymph glands.

Radiotherapy is a treatment where radiation is used to kill cancer cells. Radiotherapy is generally considered the most effective cancer treatment after surgery, but how well it works varies from person to person.

Radioactive iodine ablation is a therapy that uses radioactive iodine to treat thyroid cancer by destroying any thyroid cells that may have escaped surgical removal.

A radical prostatectomy is an operation carried out to remove the prostate for patients who have prostate cancer. The prostate, seminal vesicles and surrounding tissues are removed to provide the best possible chance of removing all the cancer.

Radical cystectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the entire bladder and surrounding tissues that may contain cancer cells. 

An Optical Urethrotomy is a procedure for opening up a stricture (narrowing) in the urethra (water pipe). 

Nephrectomy means the removal of some or all of the kidneys and can be a surgical cure when cancer has not spread out of the kidney.

Lung cancer is one of the most common and serious types of cancer. The type of treatment the patient receive for lung cancer depends on several factors, including:

Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of obstructing prostate tissue using a laser, followed by the temporary insertion of a catheter to help the bladder drain normally.

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a treatment that uses very powerful sound waves to heat and destroys cancer cells in the prostate.

It is an operation that uses a laser to remove excess tissue in the central part of your prostate gland. The laser uses concentrated light to generate precise and intense heat which vaporises the tissue.

CyberKnife is a specialised robotic radiotherapy system which uses real-time tracking capabilities to deliver high-dose radiation to tumours(cancers) with pin-point accuracy.

Conformal radiotherapy is a type of radiotherapy in which the beams are shaped specifically to individual tumour sites, and organs that are not being treated, but are radiosensitive, are shielded from the radiation, for example, heart or lungs in a breast treatment or a rectum in a prostate treatment.

After surgery for breast cancer, there remains a risk of a recurrence of the cancer in the breast over subsequent years, even when the surgeon has completely removed the cancer that can be seen. Giving a course of radiotherapy after surgery reduces this risk.

Surgery can be the treatment of various types of brain tumours. The primary aim of brain tumour surgery is to remove as much of the tumour as safely as possible without damaging the surrounding brain tissue.

Prostate brachytherapy (internal or interstitial radiotherapy) is a form of radiotherapy where the radiation dose is delivered inside the prostate gland to treat prostate cancer with the intention of curing it.

A stem cell or bone marrow transplant can be a mode of treatment for conditions in which the bone marrow is damaged and no longer able to produce healthy blood cells, such as leukaemia and lymphoma.