How to choose the best hospital for ovarian cancer treatment

Ovarian cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors of the female reproductive system. Its incidence and mortality have been slowly increasing in recent years. According to statistics from the American Cancer Society, ovarian cancer ranks sixth among common cancers in American women, and its mortality rate ranks fourth among female cancer deaths, second only to lung cancer, breast cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies. So how do you choose the best hospital for ovarian cancer treatment?

Clinically, there are many factors that affect patients' choice of hospital for treatment, but they are nothing more than the following, such as the distance from home, hospital reputation, oncology specialist treatment level, patient reputation, etc. Many cancer patients and their families do not know that hospitals are not only divided into grades, but also divided into specialized cancer hospitals and hospital oncology departments.

Oncology hospitals: Oncology hospitals are managed by dedicated personnel, providing disease consultation, expert consultation, condition tracking and return visits, etc. Specialized hospitals have strong financial resources and advanced medical facilities, specializing in specialized treatments, and experts with rich clinical experience, providing one-on-one or many-to-one quality services. Experts will invite multiple experts from different specialties to consult based on the patient's condition and needs, and try to design a systematic and comprehensive treatment plan for each cancer patient. In addition, patients and their families can avoid the fatigue and distress of not being able to get an appointment or running between various clinics.

Hospital Oncology Department: As the name suggests, the hospital oncology department is an oncology department of a hospital. It has a lot of research on the treatment of various diseases, but it cannot specialize in tumor diseases. Hospital oncology experts cannot provide one-on-one or many-on-one treatment, which will cause psychological burden to tumor patients. What's more, if patients go to irresponsible hospitals, they will encounter some strange phenomena: when tumor patients go to the hospital for internal medicine, experts recommend chemotherapy; when they go to the surgical department, experts recommend "one size fits all"; when they go to the traditional Chinese medicine department, they take traditional Chinese medicine; some internal medicine hospitals uniformly adopt conservative treatment, which is not thorough, but causes the disease to worsen, seriously endangering the patient's life.

Clinical practice has shown that due to the disadvantages of Western medicine treatment of ovarian cancer such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, such as easy recurrence and metastasis after surgery and serious toxic side effects, many ovarian cancer patients will choose to be treated in a specialized hospital of traditional Chinese medicine oncology, where the medicine is mild, non-irritating and has no toxic side effects.