AMETHYST RADIOTHERAPY – BEAT CANCER

Providing the best treatment to each patient - this is the most important challenge for the entire team of the Amethyst Radiotherapy Center - assures Barbara Werchowiecka-Rusinek in an interview starting a special supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza. In a facility cooperating directly with the Hospital. Over the course of five years, 12 patients were treated by L. Rydygier, and doctors provided 50 treatments. advice. At such a scale of activity, care and an empathetic approach to patients become an extremely important element. Olga Szpunar, one of the patients, wrote in addition:

“The Amethyst Radiotherapy Center is: efficient organization, friendly service and doctors who have time. Sometimes you wait for them in the waiting room, because they are with a patient, because they have a consultation... But once they welcome you, they patiently explain, listen carefully, and encourage you to ask questions.

Today, the precision and effectiveness of radiotherapy can be comparable to surgery. Marcin Hetnał, M.D., emphasizes that modern oncological therapies use individual solutions, closely tailored to the person's disease history. Doctors choose the best path for him based on knowledge and medical guidelines, clinical trials and publications. After analyzing all solutions, they recommend the most effective treatment method to the patient.

Krzysztof Czaja, head of the physics laboratory at the Amethyst Radiotherapy Center, explained in an interview the importance of procedures for quality control of therapeutic equipment and mutual control of activities performed by people participating in the treatment process. Double control of the treatment process at every stage of therapy and mutual checking of work radically minimize the risk of error. Patient safety is paramount.