Technology
The same operation recovers differently with a robot; the same radiation spares tissue differently with particles. Here is the equipment Korean tertiary hospitals use — what each one is, which cancers it serves, and where Korea stands.
Request a review Book a callAccelerates carbon ions to 70% of the speed of light and aims them at the tumour. It is the size of a building, and only around ten exist worldwide.
A rotating structure that delivers protons from any angle around the patient. Almost no radiation reaches the tissue beyond the tumour.
The surgeon controls the robotic arms from a console with a 3D view. The advantage is greatest in the narrow pelvis (prostate, rectum) and in the thyroid.
The standard machine for intensity-modulated and stereotactic radiation, used for most cancers where particle therapy does not apply.
Reads tissue slides digitally and finds markers such as HER2, EGFR, CLDN18.2 and MSI by next-generation sequencing — the basis for choosing drugs.
Rooms that keep infection out with positive-pressure air and HEPA filters. The 2–4 weeks until engraftment after a stem cell transplant are spent here.
Not equipment, but the room where the equipment is chosen. Surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists and pathologists set the order of treatment for one patient.
Equipment images show types of machine, not actual products. Which equipment applies to you is answered in the remote-review opinion, based on your stage.
Upload your records; tertiary-hospital physicians read them, and within 5 business days you receive an opinion, three hospitals and an estimate.
Request a review GuidesIf you have questions before the review, leave an inquiry on this site. A coordinator replies within 24 hours.
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