Hospital Quironsalud Torrevieja

• linear accelerators IMRT, IGRT;

• 3 ultrasound scanners;

• Da Vinci surgical robot;

• MRI 3 Tesla;

• room for interventional radiology, hemodynamics and heart electrophysiology;

• PET-CT;

• Gamma camera;

• digital mammography;

• digital radiology room;

• digital orthopantomograph;

• densitometer;

• excimer laser (for refractive eye surgery).

Carcinomatosis is a life-threatening manifestation of stage 4 cancer in which metastases penetrate into the membranes of internal organs. It develops in 20% of patients with malignant tumors. For a long time, patients with such a diagnosis lived no more than 6 months. However, the strategy for the treatment of carcinomatosis at the Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital prolongs the life of patients.

Therapy for carcinomatosis consists of two stages. The surgeon first removes the tumor and part of the abdomen. Then the patient is injected with a solution of chemotherapy drugs, heated to 43 degrees Celsius. So doctors destroy up to 90% of cancer cells in the human body. This treatment reduces the risk of relapse. Depending on the location of the tumor, the 5-year patient survival rate increases to 31-50%.

Removing a liver tumor with MRI-HIFU

MRI-guided radiofrequency ultrasound ablation is a non-surgical treatment for liver cancer. Unlike surgery, the ablation process is almost painless, without bleeding or risk of infection. In 90% of patients at the Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital, a decrease or complete disappearance of the tumor is observed after ultrasound ablation. The availability of this method is especially important for patients with inoperable liver cancer. MRI-HIFU can save their lives.

Intraoperative radiation therapy for breast, stomach, or pancreatic cancer

IORT radiation therapy is performed during surgery. After the doctor has removed the tumor, the edges of the organ are irradiated. This eliminates the remaining cancer cells and reduces the risk of relapse, as the patient does not need to wait a month for classical radiotherapy. Intraoperative radiotherapy requires expensive equipment that can accurately deliver radiation doses. The Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital is equipped with the newest IORT device – the Mobetron Intraop.

Electrochemotherapy for inoperable skin cancer

With the help of electrochemotherapy, drugs can be more accurately delivered to the tumor. The effectiveness of treatment is achieved through short and intense electrical impulses that act on the membrane of the cancer cell and thus transfer the drug. Electrochemotherapy helps more than 80% of patients with melanoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, stage 4 squamous cell skin cancer. This method is not available in all clinics in Europe and the CIS, and Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital is one of several centers where a patient with inoperable skin cancer will receive effective treatment.

Isolated limb perfusion for melanoma and soft tissue sarcoma

The method of isolated perfusion of the limbs of the ILC involves the introduction of large doses of chemotherapy into the area where the tumor is located. In this case, blood flow to this part is temporarily stopped. Thus, it is possible to avoid the pronounced side effects of chemotherapy. More than 80% of people in stage 2 and 50% of patients in stage 3 go into five-year remission, despite a dangerous illness. ILK also allows cancer treatment without limb amputation and avoiding postoperative complications. The availability of this method in the Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital allows 87% of patients to undergo organ-preserving treatment.

In the Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital, coronary surgery without extracorporeal circulation should be distinguished (coronary surgery without a pump with arterial grafts. Coronary surgery in this medical center accounted for 37% of the total activity, when on average in Spanish clinics this figure does not exceed 30%.

Where: Quironsalud Torrevieja Hospital

Procedure: Diagnostics of leukemia

Age: 10 years

Patients from: Krasnodar

Ksenia: “Our impressions of the Torrevieja Quironsalud Hospital are positive. At the hospital we were met by Russian-speaking specialists, as well as an interpreter. By the way, we did not pay for the translator, his services were included in the cost of treatment. Everyone liked the Quiron Torrevieja Hospital: from caring staff to modern equipment. It is neat, clean and comfortable here. There are no queues, flea market and other delights that are found in other medical institutions. For patients with children, there are waiting areas equipped with corners with books, toys and other entertainments for babies. The doctors of the Quiron Torrevieja clinic were perplexed how our child could have been given such a terrible diagnosis, which was not confirmed. As a result, we were given recommendations and prescribed treatment for other pathologies identified during the diagnosis. Thanks to doctors from Torrevieja for their responsible approach, empathy and professionalism!”