throat cancer

[minted50]

I have just been diagnosed with throat cancer. Can anybody point me to a

resonably priced hospital in the Pattaya area to get treatment. Obviously i

can travel. Maybe Bankok ?

[stubuzz]

Do a Google search. Many of the bigger hospitals list the price of their treatments, but I would assume cancer treatments will need a consultation first.

Maybe a trip back to your home country is order.

[Sheryl]

No matter where you go this is going to be extremely expensive.

First, your cancer needs to be staged to dtermine how far it has spread. This will involve many CT/MROI scans.

Then, you may need surgery - but there are many surgical approaches and some of them would leave you permanently unable to talk, and whether it is worth going through that depends on how advanced the cancer is. Thai doctors tend not to be very good at being direct and explaining things so that you can make a fully informed choice.

Radiation may also be indicated and sometimes chemotherapy.

This is going to take years of treatment/follow-up assuming it is still at a treatable stage.

There is nowhere in Pattaya that I would recommend for this. The government provincial hospital at Chonburi town has a regional cancer center but be warned as a government,tn hospital there will be language barriers, lots of red tape, long waits etc. And they usually will not tell you much at all about your condition and prognosis, the doctors spend very little time talking to the patients.

Bangkok Hospital in Bangkok (not to be confused with Bangkok Pattaya Hosp) has dedicated Cancer Hospital that can handle this and Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok has a large cancer center. Both are well able to manage this (although frank discussions about prognosis may remain a problem) but both will be very, very expensive.

If you have access to free health care in your home country I would definitely urge you to return there.

[minted50]

Thank you for the replies,

i had a biopsy in the hospital at sattahip and was told i

had stage 1 throat cancer.

I think a trip to england is on the cards.

thanks again

[Sheryl]

Definitely the best move and do not delay.

If it is stage 1 there is potential for a complete cure if you treat promplty, but also some difficult decisions to make about the extent of surgery to have.

So you really need not only affordable care but doctors who will fully inform you and involve you in the decision process.

[cheeryble]

Best wishes Minted.

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