Radiation Therapy

A warm Emirati welcome to Burjeel’s Medical City department of radiation oncology! Our department is fully dedicated to providing state-of-the-art radiotherapy treatments for our patients. Integrating up-to-date individualized patient care, along with research and evidence-based practice, we provide consultations, treatments, and follow-ups to the most complex radiation therapy cases for malignant and non-malignant diseases.

Why Burjeel Medical City:

Being a key part of VPS health-care, a leading health care provider across UAE, Oman, Saudi, and India, Burjeel Medical City is dedicated to ensuring affordable, accessible, and sustainable health care to all patients. We make sure that patients and families go through their illness with empathy, support, and personalized care. We understand how important this is, especially when dealing with a complicated disease such as cancer. (Link to patients’ testimonials).

Moreover, our department constitutes of highly qualified and trained radiation oncologists, medical physicists, dosimetrists, radiation therapists, and nursing staff who are dedicated to providing full comprehensive care for every patient (Link to department profile page). And because we believe that every patient and disease is very unique, we ensure that radiotherapy treatment is personalized and designed to maximize the therapeutic benefit, and minimize potential side effects. All this is done while ensuring that the patient is receiving the best quality radiation therapy that could be offered across the globe.

What is the Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is a very effective modality of exterminating rapidly dividing cells like cancer cells. Therefore, it is widely used in treating cancer patients and is used in about 60% of all cancer patients as part of their treatment. Radiotherapy integrates the clinical sciences of medicine, oncology with the basic sciences of biology and physics. By studying and understanding the biology of the diseases, radiotherapy works by using high energy rays, such as X-rays or Gamma rays, targeted to hit unwanted cells. While radiation therapy is mostly used in treating many different kinds of cancer (Link to next section), it’s used in treating benign disease is also increasing especially after we have significant advancement inaccurate target treatment and minimal normal surrounding tissue radiation exposure.

How Radiation Is Used with Other Cancer Treatments
Radiotherapy is a very commonly used modality in the treatment of cancer. It has been estimated that more than 60% of all cancer patients will receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment. For some patients, radiation may be the only treatment needed. In other cases, radiation therapy is part of a more comprehensive treatment plan discussed amongst the patient and treatment team. Radiotherapy can be given alone, with other systemic agents, before or after surgery if needed, depending on the disease, stage, patient performance status, and other factors that the treatment team discuss with the patient. It is given as part of the definitive cancer treatment but is also a very important tool to improve the patient’s quality of life and to treat other benign diseases resistant to conventional treatment.

Types of Diseases treated with Radiotherapy:

• Breast Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Brain Cancers
• Brain Metastasis
• Spine/ Bone metastasis
• Head and Neck Cancers
• Colorectal Cancers
• Esophageal cancers
• Skin Cancers
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Gastric Cancer
• Liver Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Testicular Cancer
• Cervical Cancer
• Endometrial Cancer
• Vaginal Cancer
• Vulvar Cancer
• Penile Cancer
• Sarcoma
• Melanoma
• Merkel Cell Carcinoma
• Lymphoma
• Pituitary tumors
• Craniopharyngioma
• Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
• Mesothelioma
• Anal Cancer
• Certain Pediatric Tumors
• Non-Cancers:
• Vestibular Schwannoma
• Meningioma
• Paraganglioma
• Trigeminal Neuralgia
• Arteriovenous Malformation
• Heterotropic Ossification
• Keloids
• Gynecomastia
• Dupuytren Contracture
• Treatment-resistant exophthalmos

Our Team
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Ibrahim H. Abu-Gheida MD
Radiation Oncology Attending Physician
Burjeel Medical City.
Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Alum. American University of Beirut, Cleveland Clinic/Ohio, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center/Houston/Texas- Radiation Oncology Departments.
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Services provided:

• Consultation for all different types of cancers and cancer screening programs
• 3-D conformal radiation therapy
• Intensity Modulated Radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Image-guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)
• Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) / Stereotactic Ablative body radiotherapy (SABR)
• Volumetric ARC therapy (VMAT)
• Total Body Radiotherapy
• Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS)
• High-Dose-Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy
• Follow up a clinic for all patient who receives their treatment abroad with coordination with the patient’s primary treatment team
• Clinical and basic research