Radiooncology Bremen

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When you are visiting us for the first time...

Your family physician, a medical specialist, a specialty department of Clinic Bremen-Mitte or a neighboring hospital has referred you to our Clinic for Radiotherapy and Radiooncology. An urgent suspicion or a secured evidence of a benign or malignant tumor disease is existent.

In order to consult adequately and offer you a concept of treatment, we have to get an exact picture of your disease. You are going to be questioned about your anamnesis and your present disturbances and symptoms. Afterwards, you will be examined. Our physicians require all existing findings, in particular records about operations, including tissue findings (histology), and all radiographs, computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging pictures.

Also information about further diseases which you might already have for many years are important for us. If applicable, we have to arrange additional examinations before determining the treatment. Existent and collected diagnostic findings are discussed with you. Only then will we submit a therapy proposal which will be elucidated intensively.

All physicians of the clinic and group practice constantly deliberate collectively, and develop an individual concept for your treatment based on the current state of radiooncology, as well as on consideration of the characteristics of your disease and your individual necessities

Before initiating radiotherapy, you will be informed in detail about procedure, potential risks, expected acute side effects, and possible remote damages in an extensive conversation with the treating physician. Radiotherapy generally requires several weeks and is carried out daily on weekdays. A written agreement is a precondition for radiotherapy. Exceptions occur in seldom cases of emergency, e.g. an impending paraplegia.

Before the first irradiation

The volume, which should be irradiated (diseased tissue plus safety border), is assessed before commencing radiotherapy and a constant dose distribution is accurately calculated by especially trained health physicists in the physics department under usage of computers and specialized processors.

The individual irradiation fields (largeness, configuration, angle of irradiation,…) are adjusted with the aid of a so called simulator, a radioscopy device, and clinically verified as well as adequately marked on the skin.

During Radiotherapy:

Radiotherapy is mostly carried out continuously over a duration of many weeks daily on weekdays. A longer discontinuance should be avoided. With the beginning of treatment you will have a constant medical contact person, who will continuously question you about your well-being and side-effects.

Often during the course of treatment over several weeks the subscription of the irradiation field on the skin is modified, mostly the irradiation volume is increasingly bounded and downsized. In order to protect risk organs, other irradiation entries and exits can be necessary.