History
Chulabhorn Hospital has been established for specialised oncology medical services since October 29, 2009, by Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Krom Phra Srisavangavadhana's resurrection, to help Thai people who suffered from all kinds of cancer. This provides the most advanced diagnostic and cancer therapeutic services for the national population. In 2015, Chulabhorn Hospital was extended adding general medical services to relieve other medical conditions of cancer patients and in 2023 started work on a 5 year expansion project to become a 400-bed super tertiary university hospital, featuring a full medical school with a focus on research and education.
Profile
The Oncology Center provides comprehensive oncology services from risk assessment screening, diagnosis, staging, treatment to palliative care. The 100-bed cancer centre has specialised physicians including a pathologist, various oncology physicians with multidisciplinary support teams to make decisions on optimal cancer treatment and planning efficiently for individualised cancer care to enable patients to receive patient-centered care. In addition, to get the most out of our healthcare resources, we also collaborate with other regions for resource sharing and set programmes for cancer specialist training according to Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Krom Phra Srisavangavadhana's resurrection to facilitate Thailand as an ASEAN oncology medical hub in the future.
Specialities
The Oncology Center of Chulabhorn Hospital provides comprehensive cancer care services with international diagnostic and treatment technology that all cancer patients are able to access across all services, provided by a team of multidisciplinary medical professionals.
Our service consist of the following specialised cancer clinics:
- Medical oncology clinic
- Gynecological cancer clinic
- Liver and bile duct cancer clinic
- Breast cancer clinic
- Colorectal surgery clinic
- Bone and soft tissue sarcoma clinic
- Head and neck cancer clinic
- Lung cancer clinic
- Skin cancer clinic
Palliative and Supportive Care
Our Palliative Care Team works in a multidisciplinary way to provide the best supportive care to prevent and relieve sufferings for patients and their families. The team consists of two psychiatrists, three medical oncologists, one anaesthesiologist, two radiation oncologists, five palliative care nurses, one pharmacist, four social workers and three physical therapists. After receiving the consultation from the primary oncologists, the issues, goals and care solutions are discussed for each patient in weekly conference.
The palliative nurses case manage patients, observing any problems or severe symptoms, coordinating with the primary oncologist to jointly come up with the best care and treatment plan. For patients with complicated issues, they are discussed in the weekly rounds to coordination care with other related physicians and supporting holistic practitioners.
For continuation of care, the team does home visits after discharge with the team networks in health centres. For referral patients who receive treatment within the outpatient and inpatient departments, follow-up re-assessment is done regularly until the end of life. For cases that we cannot visit in the community ourselves, where patients do not live in Bangkok or the peripheral areas, we communicate with the healthcare teams of the Ministry of Public Health for home visits to be undertaken.
Our comprehensive medical services for the care of cancer patients includes:
- Check-up examination and cancer risk assessment
- Diagnostic radiology investigation and intervention
- PET scan investigation
- Molecular cancer diagnosis
- Oncological surgery
- Chemotherapy, hormonal treatment, targeted therapy and immunotherapy
- Radiation oncology treatment
- Nuclear medicine investigation and treatment
- Planning for cancer treatment by multidisciplinary team (Tumor board conference)
- Cancer rehabilitation (preventive before treatment and recovery after the treatment period)
- Integrative oncology care and palliative treatment
- Oncofertility
Last update: January 2024
