Cancer Treatment in Izmir, Turkey
There are three ways to treat cancer: with medicine, hormone therapy and immunotherapy, with radiation, and with surgery. For each treatment there is a different specialist, depending on your type of cancer and the stage of the disease.
- Medical oncologist. He or she will oversee your general care and coordinate treatments with other specialists and will also be in charge of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and hormone therapy.
- Radiation oncologist. This cancer specialist treats cancer with radiation therapy.
- Surgical oncologist. This is a surgeon who has special training in treating cancer by removing tumors or other cancerous tissue.
Societies and Associations your cancer doctor should belong to:
- Turkish Oncology Association
- Turkish Association of Physicist in Medicine
- Turkish Physics Engineering Association
- Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine
- ESTRO (European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology)
- ASTRO (American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology)
- ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology)
- EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer)
- Radiation Oncology Group
- Rare Cancer Network
- Turkish Oncology Group
- Medicine Chamber of Istanbul
- Medical Oncology Chamber of Turkey
- Turkish Radiation Oncology Association
- Lung Cancers Association
- Turkish Medical Association
- American Association of Physicist in Medicine
- American Society of Therapeutic and Radiologic Oncology
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