Breast cancer treatment in Israel helps avoid breast amputation in 95% of cases thanks to organ-preserving surgical procedures at the Assuta private clinic. Israeli surgical oncologists in Assuta perform surgery with “clean margins” by removing the tumor completely.
Advanced breast cancer treatments in Assuta help prevent cancer recurrence. These treatments include INTRABEAM intraoperative radiation therapy, hormone therapy, individually selected regimens of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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Examination for Breast Cancer
What to Expect from Diagnosis in Assuta
The diagnosis takes 3-4 days. Treatment may start the very next day after the final diagnosis. Assuta is a leading private clinic that has latest generation equipment and does not employ residents and trainees, only professors and doctors with at least 15 years of professional experience.
Day 1: Primary Examination
10:00
Arrival and registration at the Assuta clinic.
14:00
Consultation with a diagnostician. Physical exam, correction of the preliminary examination plan.
15:30
If the patient has slides or blocks with tumor tissue samples, they are sent for revision.
Day 2: Diagnosis
09:00
Comprehensive complete blood count and blood biochemistry.
10:00
Urinalysis that helps reveal a number of physical and chemical characteristics.
11:30
Breast ultrasound or mammography to determine the size and location of the tumor.
16:00
Computerized tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET).
Day 3: Treatment Plan
13:00
Consultation with an oncologist/mammologist.
14:30
Summary of the examination results, verification and certification of the documents translated into English.
16:00
Provision of recommendations, prescription of medicines according to the treatment protocol.
Цена программы диагностики рака молочной железы в Ассуте – $2995.
Who Detects and Treats Breast Cancer
What Is the Cost of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment?
Treatment Procedure
Prices (USD)
Consultation with an oncologist
550
PET/CT
2200
Mammography
392
Organ-preserving surgery for breast cancer
3000
Breast Cancer Treatments in Israel
Tumor Removal
If the tumor has been detected in its early stages, the primary breast cancer treatment method in Israel is surgical. Surgery helps reach two goals:
- Remove the tumor. “Clean margins”, or the absence of cancerous cells, is the main purpose of the surgeon. To control whether there are cancerous cells on the section during surgery, doctors use the newest methods of express analysis, including the MarginProb system.
- Check the extent of the process and find out whether the axillary lymph nodes are affected. To check the lymph nodes, Israeli surgeons first remove the so-called sentinel lymph node. During surgery, an express biopsy is performed: the lymph node is quickly examined for cancerous cells. If there are no tumor cells in the sentinel lymph node, this means that other lymph nodes are not affected either. In this case, other lymph nodes do not require removal. This helps prevent such complications as lymphedema.
It should be noted that surgeons and oncologists at the Assuta Clinic develop such treatment programs that help preserve the breast. At the earlier stages of the disease, Israeli doctors primarily perform surgery to remove a very small part of the breast (lumpectomy) or a quarter of the breast (quadrantectomy). Clinical trials show that preservation of the breast does not decrease the patients’ survival rates.
Sometimes, however, the breast must be removed completely. But, in this case, Israeli physicians are also able to find a way out for the patient. In particular, complete surgical removal of the breast with preservation of the breast skin and nipple has been done more frequently in recent years. These procedures are performed when the nipple is not affected by cancer and its blood supply is not disrupted).
In this case, the plastic surgeon only has to replace the removed inner part of the breast with a silicone implant or fat tissue taken from the patient’s abdomen. This type of surgery in Israel is often performed during the procedure of breast removal.
Even if the breast was removed with the nipple, there are reconstruction options that help create an almost natural look for the breast.
Prevention of Cancer Spread
When the first stage is over, the multidisciplinary team of Assuta physicians begins the second stage that aims to prevent malignant tumor cells from spreading throughout the body. This is achieved with the following methods:
- Chemotherapy. The duration of treatment may amount to 4-6 months, so patients from abroad can purchase high-quality chemotherapy agents in Israel and receive treatment in their home country. It should be noted that in some cases, treatment may start with chemotherapy. This is often the case when the tumor is too large: chemotherapy helps shrink it and facilitates its surgical removal. Oftentimes, chemotherapy ordered before surgery helps physicians preserve the patient’s breast. Besides, it may also prevent recurrence of the disease. The Assuta oncologists select chemotherapy agents individually since it is important to minimize side effects.
- Biological treatment (targeted immunotherapy). Treatment with Herceptin, a targeted therapy drug, is only prescribed for a certain type of breast cancer (HER2-positive breast cancer).
- Hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is used to treat hormone-dependent forms of breast cancer. Its main purpose is to prevent estrogen, a female sex hormone, from interacting with cancerous cells.
These 3 methods may be used either alone or in combination.
Prevention of Recurrence
To prevent a recurrence, doctors use radiation therapy. It is an important method that prevents recurrence in the area from where the tumor was removed. Besides, this procedure precludes the spread of cancer into other organs.
Radiation is usually aimed at the breast and sometimes also at the axillary area. The standard radiation therapy course for breast cancer in Israel includes 25 procedures: 5 sessions a week during 5 weeks.
However, thanks to the modern linear accelerators used for irradiation, the duration of early-stage cancer treatment may be reduced from 5 to 3 weeks.
What Advanced Breast Cancer Treatments Are Used in Israel?
- INTRABEAM intraoperative radiation therapy.
- Immunotherapy
- Personalized chemotherapy protocols developed by Professor M. Inbar.
The advanced technique of INTRABEAM intraoperative irradiation ensures treatment with radiation during actual surgery. This type of treatment often replaces multiple sessions of postoperative radiation therapy.
How to Receive Treatment in Israel?
You can ask any questions about treatment at the Assuta Clinic by leaving an application on the website or by calling +972-33760427 (your call will be forwarded to the clinic’s international department in Israel free of charge). Our consulting physician will call you back within 1-2 hours. The consultation is absolutely free. Confidentiality is guaranteed.
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Doctors started to use partial mastectomy for breast cancer relatively recently. However, now in Israel, we perform such surgical interventions in most cases. Longstanding studies show that long-term outcomes of breast-conserving surgery are the same as the long-term outcomes of a total mastectomy. This is why many patients who have a choice opt for organ-preserving surgery. For this very purpose, they come to Assuta from different countries of the world. During surgery, we remove the tumor and a part of healthy breast tissues. All removed tissues are immediately sent for examination. Using a special dye, we detect the sentinel lymph node draining the breast area. If neither tissues nor the lymph node contain cancerous cells, the surgery is complete. If there are microscopic tumor foci in the removed tissues, the surgeon cuts out a larger volume of tissue and sends it for examination once more. This is repeated until the margins are "clean", or free from cancer. This type of surgery does not only save a woman's life, but also preserves her attractiveness and confidence.
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FAQ
Lung cancer mostly occurs in older people. Most people diagnosed with lung cancer are 65 years of age or older; a very small number of people who are diagnosed are younger than 45 years of age. The average age of people at the time of diagnosis is about 70 years.
It usually takes 4 to 8 weeks to recover from lung surgery. Ask your surgeon when you can return to work.
Surgery offers the best chance of long-term survival for patients with primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The chance of recurrence after surgery is 30-77%, depending on the stage and other factors.
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