Medicana Hospitals Group

Medicana Transplant Centers are officially certified by the Turkish Ministry of Health. Every 6 months, Medicana performs more than 200 kidney transplants, 9 out of 10 procedures are successfully completed with no complications.

A 640-slice Tomograph is installed in Medicana. Tomograph takes a picture of the heart in just 4 seconds, giving the doctor a three-dimensional image. Pictures of moving organs come out clearer, and the radiation load on the body is reduced.

Medicana developed a unique method of angiography through the vessels of the wrist. The path to the heart from the hand is safer than from the hip.

• The CyberKnife system for the non-surgical treatment of benign and malignant tumors is a painless treatment without incisions. The new generation works faster than the previous one and acts on malignant tissues with 99.6% accuracy.
• Linear Accelerator Versa HD — for radiation therapy with a controlled dose of radiation. In the new generation, the radiation field of the required shape and size is tuned so it has no effect on healthy cells.
• Discovery IQ PET / CT — for staging cancer and monitoring the effectiveness of chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatments. Compared to conventional PET-CT, body scans are faster. Less time in the device means less radiation and more comfort for the patient.

Medicana is the number 1 private hospital in terms of the number of renal transplants performed. More than 500 people visit here every year. The well-known Turkish transplant surgeon — Professor Murat Tuncer is in charge of the department.

Medicana’s surgeons successfully transplanted kidneys according to the «domino» principle — to 7 patients at once. There were 22 doctors in the operating rooms, including 9 organ transplant specialists.

The clinic performs kidney transplant surgeries for patients with diagnoses of hepatitis and diabetes mellitus, as well as children.

Medicana has adopted the experience of Israeli and German cancer centers. An interdisciplinary team of doctors specializes in all types of cancer. The department is headed by an oncologist with 30 years of experience — Professor Mutlu Demiray.

Diagnosis is made quickly and accurately because doctors use:

• genetic tests,
• tests for tumor markers,
• bone densitometry,
• ultrasound with contrast,
• MRI,
• CT,
• PET-CT.

Cancer is treated not only surgically, but also with:

• immunotherapy,
• cyberknife,
• advanced Brachytherapy,
• Linac,
• IMRT,
• HIPEC.

Each Medicana patient with oncology is treated simultaneously in 4 specialized departments:

• Medical oncology — patients receive chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted and immunotherapy;
• Radiation Oncology — Radiation Therapy Department;
• Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic department where tumor localization and size are determined. The effectiveness of treatment after surgery or medication is monitored here;
• Molecular Oncology is a research center for the study of genetic disorders and factors affecting the formation of cancer cells.