Cancer Treatment in China

Cancer is a chronic disease, it is featured with uncontrolled development and growth of abnormal cells in the body, these cells may spread throughout the body and have the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue.

Cancer treatment aims to remove cancer in patient’s body, to shrink cancer or to slow the progression of cancer, hence letting the patient live a normal life span symptom free for as long as possible. It usually involves one or a combination of more treatments, depending on your particular condition.

How can we help?

The goal of our cancer treatment program is to help patients live in a better quality of life. Hospitals in China offer quality and affordable cancer treatments, including conventional treatment such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and innovative therapies such as CAR T-cell therapy, immunotherapy, proton therapy, photodynamic therapy, and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). 

Apart from the quality and affordability of the treatment, we also believe that timely treatment is one of the keys that leads to a better quality of life and survival.

Types of Cancer Treatment

Many cancer treatments are available in China, the treatment options will depend on the type and stage of your cancer, your health condition, and your preferences.

Featured treatment options include:

• CAR T-cell therapy. A novel cancer treatment that enhances your own immune cells to fight against lymphoma.
• Immunotherapy. Immunotherapy, also known as biological therapy, uses your body’s immune system to fight cancer. Cancer can survive unchecked in your body because your immune system doesn’t recognize it as an intruder. Immunotherapy can help your immune system “see” the cancer and attack it.
• Proton therapy. Proton therapy is an advanced radiation treatment that precisely targets tumors, with the goal of minimizing radiation to healthy tissue and improving the lives of patients while they’re fighting cancer and after.
• Photodynamic therapy. Photodynamic therapy uses a drug that is activated by light to kill cancer cells.
• Traditional Chinese medicine. Herbal remedies and acupuncture aim to rebalance the body for self-healing and improve quality of life.

Conventional treatments include:

• Surgery. The goal of surgery is to remove the cancerous lesion or as much of it as possible.
• Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells.
• Radiation therapy. Radiation therapy uses high-powered energy beams, such as X-rays or protons, to kill cancer cells. Radiation treatment can come from a machine outside your body (external beam radiation), or it can be placed inside your body (brachytherapy).
• Hormone therapy. Some types of cancer are fueled by your body’s hormones. Examples include breast cancer and prostate cancer. Removing those hormones from the body or blocking their effects may cause the cancer cells to stop growing.
• Targeted drug therapy. Targeted drug treatment focuses on specific abnormalities within cancer cells that allow them to survive.
• Cryoablation. This treatment kills cancer cells with cold. During cryoablation, a thin, wandlike needle (cryoprobe) is inserted through your skin and directly into the cancerous tumor. A gas is pumped into the cryoprobe in order to freeze the tissue. Then the tissue is allowed to thaw. The freezing and thawing process is repeated several times during the same treatment session in order to kill the cancer cells.
• Radiofrequency ablation. This treatment uses electrical energy to heat cancer cells, causing them to die. During radiofrequency ablation, a doctor guides a thin needle through the skin or through an incision and into the cancer tissue. High-frequency energy passes through the needle and causes the surrounding tissue to heat up, killing the nearby cells.
• Clinical trials. Clinical trials are studies to investigate new ways of treating cancer. Thousands of cancer clinical trials are underway.

Other treatments may be available to you, depending on your type of cancer.