| Cancer is a widely known disease and its treatment | | | | being used as an alternative treatment to tumors as |
| has been known to be very expensive. Cancer can | | | | well as brain tumor, vascular malformation, Trigeminal |
| affect any person at any age and the risk of getting | | | | Neuralgia, and other conditions of the brain that used |
| cancer increases with age. According to statistics | | | | to be treated with open surgery in the past. |
| obtained from the world health organization for 2006, | | | | One of the other alternative treatments being used |
| about 13% of human deaths worldwide is caused by | | | | to treat cancer is Enzyme – Immune – Cell |
| cancer. Most cancers can be treated or cured | | | | (EIC) therapy. This method uses a combination of 18 |
| depending on the diagnosis, the type, location, and | | | | metabolic and integrative medicine modalities that |
| stage of the cancer. | | | | provide a powerful and non-toxic cancer therapy. |
| In the Philippines, the conventional method of treating | | | | Medical tourism centers can provide information on |
| cancer is through surgical procedure with a gamma | | | | EIC therapy centers. EIC therapy centers in the |
| knife. This method is a form of radiation therapy | | | | Philippines have a critical part in the care for cancer |
| since the gamma knife is a radio-surgical tool that | | | | patients in the Philippines. EIC therapy center provide |
| uses ionizing radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation | | | | immunotherapy, hormone therapy, tests and other |
| therapy is known to destroy the cells in the targeted | | | | services. |
| area by damaging their genetic material. It would | | | | In selecting the treatment, it depends on the type, |
| make it impossible for these cells to continue to | | | | location and stage of the cancer that can be found |
| divide and grow. While the normal cells are also | | | | out through diagnosis. Once the diagnosis is done, the |
| damaged with the cancer cells, the normal cells can | | | | patient is selected with the possible methods in |
| recover from the effects of the radiation and | | | | treating the cancer. In choosing the best possible |
| function properly again. | | | | facility for the cancer treatment, contact medical |
| The Leksell gamma knife, which was invented by a | | | | tourism centers like Wellness and Health Services |
| Swedish neurosurgeon in 1967, is being used to treat | | | | Asia Inc (WAHSA). WAHSA can guide you to |
| brain tumors and other various diseases in the brain | | | | affordable health services with their experienced |
| by using radiation therapy. The gamma knife is also | | | | chaperones. |