Description
Medical oncology clinic UMHAT Sveta Marina, Varna is a hospital which deals with treating cancer, malignant tumors, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, etc.
Chemotherapy and targeted therapy which is performed here take place in the hospital by clinical pathway, funded by the National Health Insurance Fund (№ 298 Diagnosis and systemic drug treatment for solid tumors in individuals over 18 years).
The hospital is a scientific and healing structure, dealing with the treatment according to „the Medical standards for systematic drug treatment of malignant solid tumors of” the Bulgarian oncology nursing society, 2009.
Brain tumors
Head and neck cancer
Breast Cancer
Lung cancer
Pleural Mesothelioma
Thymoma and Thymic carcinoma
Esophageal cancer
Stomach Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Bile Duct cancer
Kidney cancer
Colon and Rectal Cancer
Ovarian cancer
Endometrial cancer
Cervical Cancer
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Testicular Cancer
Sarcomas
Malignant melanoma
Oncology and medical oncology
Oncology studies malignant tumors (carcinomas and sarcomas), and medical oncology is one of its branches and represents a science and practice of a drug therapy.
For the cancer therapy are used anticancer drugs. When anticancer drugs are taken by the body intravenously or by mouth, the treatment is called systemic drug therapy, and when the drugs are used only in the place where the tumor is, the treatment is called topical (local) drug therapy.
Chemotherapy and target therapy
The chemotherapy is a type of system and /or a local anti-tumor therapy, which uses cytotoxic agents (substances that repress the mechanisms of cell-division and the process of multiplication of the tumor cells).
The target therapy is a kind of systemic anti-tumor therapy, which uses the so-called biological materials, also called target drugs. They are organic molecules that selectively activate or repress the essential for tumor cells biological processes and thereby lead to their death and suspension of tumor growth.
The effect is implemented by capturing a specific location (receptor) of a certain cellular molecules and because of this focus, the drugs are called target drugs.