Services Offered Include
1. Cancer Treatment
(i) Treatment: chemotherapy, co-ordination of overall treatment plan (may include other clinical specialties), after-treatment care, palliative care.
(ii) Cancer Types: breast, colon/rectum, lung, gastrointestinal, gynaecological, urological, head & neck, hepatobiliary, musculoskeletal, neurological, haematological malignancies.
(iii) Cancer Support Programmes: symptom management, infective precautions, dietary counselling, emotional counselling.
(iv) Clinical Trials
2. Cancer Screening
Screening plays a crucial role in detecting cancer in its early stages. When cancer is detected early, prompt intervention and treatment can lead to improved clinical outcomes.
International Cancer Specialists and its allied services offer a comprehensive cancer detection service, using top-of-the-line health screening and diagnostic technology. Screening procedures range from blood tests to radiological imaging, such as ultrasound scans, CT (computed tomography) scans, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans and PET (positron emission tomography) scans.
Raising public awareness to recognise early warning signals is helpful, although cancer can occur in individuals with no symptoms or signs. Currently, clinical evidence best supports screening the general population for breast cancer, cervical cancer and colorectal cancer. Although screening measures for other cancers exist, there is a worldwide effort ongoing to evaluate their clinical impact.
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