• World's Most Affordable Proton Treatment for Prostate Cancer
• Treatment Costing 50-75% Less Than at U.S. Proton Facilities
• Immediate Access, No Waiting

Treatment Provided at National Cancer Center, Seoul, South Korea

The NCC is a top cancer treatment, research and training center. The National Cancer Center opened in 2000, as a government-funded facility to provide comprehensive treatment options for Koreans diagnosed with any form of cancer. The NCC offers a vast range of chemo, surgical and radiation treatments, in a facility packed with ultra-sophisticated medical equipment and staffed by highly trained cancer specialists.  The ultra-modern NCC operates a Proton Therapy Center, one of the few proton radiation facilities around the world. There are only six of these sophisticated radiation treatment facilities in North America, at leading cancer treatment centers. Facilities like the renown M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and in Boston, at the Massachusetts General Hospital with its close links to Harvard Medical School. 

There are so few proton treatment facilities because of cost. To build one costs over $100 million, making proton centers the most expensive medical facilities built today -- and proton treatment one of the most expensive medical procedures. The cost for a full course of proton radiation in the United States often exceeds $100,000, and could total twice that amount. The NCC offers treatment for a fraction of that amount.

What Is Proton Beam Radiation? And How Does It Differ From Conventional Radiation?

For decades, radiation oncologists have used x-rays to kill cancer tumors. But in the process, surrounding healthy tissue and organs can be damaged, causing detrimental side effects. That's because conventional radiation passes through the entire portion of the body being treated, radiating not only the tumor, but everything in front and behind the tumor as well. A proton beam, by contrast, can be precisely targeted, to deposit it's energy with pinpoint accuracy. Treatment is shaped and sculpted to the contours of a tumor. That makes proton radiation an extremely compelling treatment for prostate cancer.

Fewer Risks, Preserved Quality of Life

Incontinence, impotence, and urinary or bowel problems are not uncommon when prostate cancer is treated via surgery or conventional radiation. Those problems are far rarer after proton radiation. That's why proton therapy is No. 1 in patient satisfaction. Not only is no other treatment better at curing prostate cancer. No rival treatment produces so few side effects. So none do a better job in preserving a man's quality of life over the years and decades after treatment.

Immediate Access, Total Patient Care

Patients can begin treatment immediately, unlike in the United States where prostate cancer patients must wait three-months or more, if access is granted at all. To find out more about this treatment option, please complete the inquiry registration form -  Click Here.

We'll respond by sending a brochure describing the Proton Beam Prostate Cancer Treatment Program at the National Cancer Center in Seoul, as well as all the support services provided to foreign patients. 

The NCC's Proton Therapy Center uses the proton beam treatment system manufactured and maintained by Belgium-based IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.), the world's No. 1 proton equipment maker. The IBA system is used in over half of the clinical proton treatment facilities around the world.Foreign patients are also offered opportunities to join many activities -- sports, classes, cultural events, weekend excursions to places of great interest outside Seoul. Proton therapy has been described as taking a "radiation vacation." 

The treatment procedures followed at the NCC conform to the practices at proton centers in the United States and around the world.

And the professional training and qualifications of the PBT staff at the NCC are outstanding. As one of the leading cancer treatment and research centers in Asia, the NCC attracts many top cancer specialists and sub-specialists, who've often worked at other leading cancer centers. NCC president Jin-Soo Lee, M.D., PhD, spent years as a staff physician at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The head of the NCC proton center, Dr. Kwan Ho Cho, is a U.S.-board certified radiation oncologist who spent 13 years teaching radiation oncology at the University of Minnesota medical school. And all NCC proton center physicians are graduates of top Korean medical schools, among the most competitive training programs to gain entrance to in the world.

After careful research, many men decide Proton radiation is the best option for treating prostate cancer because of its unsurpassed success in vanquishing cancer, with a much lower risk of serious side-effects. Additional research will confirm the National Cancer Center in Seoul is truly one of the finest Proton treatment centers in the world, with the lowest-cost program anywhere for treating English-speaking prostate cancer patients.

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