A modern equipment for cancer treatment (Source: VNA)HCM
City (VNA) – and for cancer treatment in
Vietnam are becoming more and more , approaching the progress of the world
medicine, heard a conference on advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment in
Ho Chi Minh City on September 11.
According to Deputy Director of the National
Radiotherapy Center, head of Chest Radiology, National Cancer Hospital (K
Hospital) Nguyen Cong Hoang, among the three main pillars of cancer treatment –
radiotherapy, surgery and medicine, the radiotherapy plays an important role because
60-70 percent of cancer patients are required to have radiation therapy.
Vietnam’s leading cancer treatment facilities are constantly armed with modern
equipment, and applying new techniques to further improve the effectiveness of
radiotherapy.
Notably,
the K Hospital is using the Gamma Knife Icon radiosurgery system – the most modern radiotherapy machine generation in the world for
radiotherapy. With this device, people with cancer in Vietnam have an
additional modern treatment method for multimodal treatment of brain tumors without having to go
overseas.
Sharing
Hoang’s view, Doctor Pham Van Binh from the robotic endoscopic surgery centre
of the K Hospital said advances in cancer surgical surgery, especially cancer
surgery by robots, have become routine in Vietnam.
These helps surgeons work more and more effectively, reduce pain and recovery
time, and improve the quality of life of patients after surgeries.
According to statistics by the World Health Organization, in 2018, the
proportion of Vietnamese people with cancer was 151.4 /100,000 people, ranking
99 out of 185 countries and territories, 19th in Asia and 15th in
Southeast Asia.
The
number of new cancer cases in Vietnam has been constantly increasing, counting
up to nearly 165,000 in 2018./.
Source: VietnamPlus
