Every year, thousands of Romanian patients are chosen someone else’s roadhold when receiving an oncological diagnosis. Most of them go tofor interventionhold and seeI am returning to continue my treatment at home. Doreen K., patient ȋAt the age of 70, he did exactly the opposite. He was undergoing chemotherapy at Memorial Hospital in Istanbul, and when he found out about it home networkTurkish medicinal water it also expandsin Romania, he decided to undergo surgery at the Memorial Hospital in Benias. Treatment and interventionthey saved him from one of the most aggressive forms of cancer – pancreatic cancer.

,,This happened a few months after the opening of the Memorial Hospital in Romaniaafter spendingseveral months of chemotherapy at Sisli Memorial, Istanbul, where every year hundreds are being treated Romanian patients. He had andansa to work there, but he decided not to Qback home and believed in us and in Baneasa Memorial Hospital, the network’s first hospital opened outside of Turkey. The patient initially underwent oncological treatment in Turkey to shrink the lesion, which also had metastatic nodes. after after completing the procedures, he repeated the exam and vAhembuzzing cthe ganglia have disappeared. That’s why chemotherapy is there and the operation here exclusively solved the case.” said Dr. Cesar Stroescu, chief physician of oncology and general surgery.

The intervention led by Dr. Stroescu, which also involved Memorial Hospital ATI coordinator Dr. Ruxandra Fota, lasted four hours and was complicated because the patient had half of his pancreas and spleen resected.

“This is an interventionthat is, ultra-radical surgery is RAMPS (radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy), HEART we also removed a lot of tissue around the tumor. The operation lasted about four hours and did not require cnge, because the team super coach from Memorial Hospital is doing an ace operationway that blood loss is less than 100-200 ml, according to European medical standards.” explained Dr. Cesar Stroescu.

The primary oncologist has several hundred such operations. Thanks to this, Cezar Stroescu reached the level of High Volume Surgeons (international recognition of surgeons who perform from 20 to 65 interventions of this type per year).

“I have hundreds of such operations. Qthroughout the civilized worldthese operations are mostly performed in tertiary centers, because the mortality of surgeons who operate is less than ten per year between 15 and 18%, and what’s nextand are performed physicians, a high-volume surgeon is less than 1%,” concludes the doctor.

The patient is recovering well, now she is waiting for a second consultation six months after the intervention – “Full recovery was about a month laterbut the patient felt well and a went home shortly after the interventionyou. Three months later, he came for a consultation, etcI will come nowsix months later, at the second consultation.”

To the doctor’s attention

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive human malignancies, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the Western world. These gloomy statistics are explained, on the one hand, by the rapid development of the disease without alarming symptoms, which determines the detection of the disease only at an advanced stage, and on the other hand, by the low success rate of treatment.

Pancreatic cancer is rarely found in the early stages, when the chances of a cure may be high, because it is an insidious disease that causes no symptoms until it has spread to other organs. Therefore, treating this disease is a major challenge for oncologists, and possible options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these.

Even if the disease is silent, the doctor pays attention to what may indicate pancreatic cancer.

“The onset of diabetes in Complete health may indicate a tumor of the pancreas, regardless of the patient’s age. Everyone is patientthose who have sudden onset of diabetes, associated with alcohol consumption and smoking, must take iwhen calculating the risk of developing pancreatic cancer. In this case, the patient should consult a family doctor who will see him direct caTspecialists: gastroenterologist, oncologist, etcand if necessary to the surgeon“, I declarespecialist.

At Băneasa Memorial Hospital, treatment is personalized and each patient’s treatment plan is discussed by an interdisciplinary committee (tumor committee). Thus, only 10% of pancreatic cancer cases can be operated on directly, the remaining patients will undergo complex oncological treatment.

Article supported by Băneasa Memorial Hospital