HCMC – The privately-held Trieu An Hospital Corporation, the owner of the general hospital of the same name in HCMC, on Monday inaugurated a well-equipped polyclinic in District 11.
An Trieu Polyclinic at 119-121 Lac Long Quan Street is part of Trieu An General Hospital’s expansion project, according to the corporation. It is open six days a week and can serve about 1,000 patients a day. This clinic provides outpatient services only.
On the occasion of the polyclinic’s opening, Trieu An hospital introduces two new services including HDR (High Dose Rate) Radiotherapy for cancer treatment.
Trieu An Hospital, in collaboration with Medic Medical Center, has started offering radiotherapy for cancer patients using HDR in a brand new facility at the Hi-Tech Healthcare Park in the city’s Binh Tan District.
This is the third hospital in the city to be equipped with HDR. HDR brachytherapy involves placing a protected source of high energy radiation directly within the tumor and using radioactive plaques, needles, tubes, wires, or small “seeds” made of radionuclides. These radioactive materials are placed over the surface of the tumor or implanted within the tumor, or placed within a body cavity surrounded by the tumor.
HDR brachytherapy allows highly localized doses of radiation to be delivered to the tumor quickly and without radiation exposure to your family or the hospital staff. Because HDR brachytherapy is performed on an outpatient basis it is much more convenient and cost-effective than LDR brachytherapy which usually requires a hospital stay.
In addition, LDR brachytherapy requires patients to remain as still as possible for days at a time, exposing them to risk of deep vein thrombosis. This risk is eliminated with the much more rapid HDR brachytherapy.
The treatment planning system permits doctors to precisely control the amount of radiation delivered to the region, and to limit the amount of radiation that reaches nearby healthy tissue.
