Vietnam has the most modern cancer treatment machine in the world

Radiotherapy for radiotherapy allows surgery to be combined, with software that accurately calculates the dose, position and reduces the duration of radiotherapy to 1-2 minutes.

Starting today, the modern radiotherapy system at BV K comes into operation under the investment policy of the Ministry of Health.

This is the most modern radiotherapy system in the world today, Vietnam is one of the first countries in the region to own this system.

Radiotherapy is the most modern radiotherapy system in the world today.

Associate Prof. Dr. Tran Van Thuan, Director of Hospital K said, the accelerated radiotherapy system has a 160-leaf collimator, allowing radiotherapy to guide images, radiotherapy to adjust volume, radiotherapy to brain tumor, radiation Fixed treatment of the whole tumor cell mass such as lung, prostate by combining with active breathing synchronous technique.

The system also has software that accurately calculates the dose, position of radiotherapy, reduces radiotherapy time to 1-2 minutes, helping patients minimize the effects of radiation to healthy tissues.

In particular, patients undergoing surgery with this system are still covered by health insurance as usual.

Parallel treatment equipment is a PET / CT system with the ability to detect cancer at the earliest stages where imaging diagnostic devices such as CT and MRT cannot be detected.

PET / CT is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, to determine whether the patient has metastatic cells.

In the North , only 3 hospitals with PET / CT systems include: Viet Duc, BV 108 and K.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien assessed that when putting these two systems in operation, it will help cancer patients increase treatment opportunities in the early stages, increase treatment effectiveness and reduce costs.

According to the Research Institute for Cancer Prevention, it is estimated that in Vietnam there are about 94,000 people die of cancer / year, the death rate ranked 78 out of 171 countries surveyed.

Worryingly, the number of new cancer sufferers in Vietnam tends to increase rapidly, from 68,000 in 2000 to 126,000 in 2010 and is expected to exceed 190,000 in 2020.