On May 10 and 11, 2019, at the invitation of the manager of Medical Karadži - Zvezdelina Lutfi, the oncology specialists Assoc. Dr. Yasemin Bölükbasi and Assoc. Dr. Fatih Selçukbiriçik will visit Sofia. They will conduct FREE CONSULTATIONS for Bulgarian cancer patients as part of our initiative to provide Bulgarian patients with access to the most advanced methods and technologies in medicine. The consultations are suitable for patients in need of a second opinion as well as for patients interested in treatment abroad, in particular Turkey.
Who is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Bjolukbasi?
Dr. Yasemin Bölükbaşı is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the American Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. She was born in 1975 in Izmir. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Egge University in 1999 and completed her residency in 2004 at the same university. While working as a consultant in the Department of Radiation Oncology of Ege University between 2005 and 2010, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Cancer Control Department of the University between 2007 and 2008. After completing her radiation oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center between 2008 and 2009, Dr. Yasemin Bölükbaşı joined the staff of American Hospital, Istanbul in 2010 and is currently a faculty member in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The MD Anderson Radiation Treatment Center - Istanbul at American Hospital offers a full range of radiation therapies. It is the first medical radiation treatment facility outside the United States to fully replicate the institution's treatment standards enforced by Houston-trained physicians. The two institutions are collaborating to meet a critical need in Turkey for expertise in radiation therapy, which is dealing with the rising incidence of cancer, especially lung and breast cancer.
Who is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatih Selçukbiriçik?
Dr. Fatih Selçukbiriçik is an associate professor of medical oncology at Koç University Hospital, Istanbul. He was born in 1974 in Akshehir. After graduating from high school in Akshehir in 1993, he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University in 1999. He specialized in Medical Oncology at the same university between 2009 and 2012. She has been working at Koç University Hospital since September 2014.
MD Anderson Cancer Treatment Center
MD Anderson is currently ranked number one among cancer hospitals in the United States according to the survey, "America's Best Hospitals," conducted by U.S. News & World Report, having been in the top two since the survey's inception in 1990. The collaboration of American Hospital, Istanbul and MD Anderson is based on the understanding that the relationship will help bring MD Anderson's standard of cancer care to hospitals around the world.
Radiation therapy at American Hospital - MD Anderson Radiation Treatment Center, which opened its doors to patients on January 28, 2010, is based on the planned, controlled, localized administration of ionized radiation in prescribed doses. The goal of the radiation treatment method is to provide therapy within the radiation threshold that will counteract and destroy disease cells at the site where the therapy is administered without damaging or reducing the function of healthy tissue. The amount of radiation to be administered is based on the diagnosis, stage, and indication for treatment. As a treatment modality that is administered to more than half of the total number of cancer patients, radiation therapy may be:
- "curative" (used for the purpose of effective treatment)
- "adjuvant" (in addition with other methods)
- "palliative" (to relieve pain associated with disease, bleeding and other symptoms
- "prophylactic" (preventive)
Radiation therapy at American Hospital - MD Anderson Radiation Treatment Center is led by Ugur Selek, MD, PhD, a tenured associate professor of Radiation Oncology at the MD Anderson Radiation Treatment Center at the University of Texas. Dr. Selek's team of medical radiation physicists, radiation therapy technicians and nurses works with a full range of radiation therapies:
- Comprehensive four-dimensional computed tomography simulation (4DCT)
- Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT)
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT)
- Volumetric Modulated Rotational Therapy (VMAT-Smartarc)
- Synchronized breathing radiotherapy
- Cranial and extracranial radiosurgery
- Partial breast radiotherapy
- Prostate implants
- Three-dimensional conformal brachytherapy
All patients interested in the free consultations with the oncology specialists Assoc. Dr. Yasemin Bjolyukbasi and Assoc. Dr. Fatih Selçukbiriçik on May 10 and 11, 2019 in Sofia should make an appointment in advance by calling the following numbers Health Information Center Medical Karadži: 0879 977 401 or 0879 977 402.
