Treatment of meningioma in Israel - what does the patient need to know?

Some histological forms of neoplasms can be completely cured without surgical procedures. For the most part, minimally invasive manipulations help overcome tumor cells and tissues.

However, the danger of meningioma should not be underestimated. If you suspect the appearance of a neoplasm, contact medical clinics in Israel .

Approximate scheme for combating the disease

Any treatment of meningioma in Israel involves an individual approach to each person who comes to the clinic. However, we can identify an approximate scheme of “cooperation” between the patient and doctors:

• Stage 1. At the initial stage, a general examination and consultation with a specialist in the field of neurosurgery is performed. The doctor determines the patient’s current health status, collects data in order to establish the characteristics of the suspected disease, gets acquainted with neurological manifestations, etc. In addition, it determines which diagnostic procedures need to be prescribed;

• Stage 2. Treatment of meningioma in Israel begins only after highly accurate diagnosis. During diagnostic procedures, specialists determine the condition of the nerve endings in the brain and blood vessels, the proximity of the tumor to them, the malignant or benign nature of the tumor, its shape and size, exact location and many other important data.

Usually the second stage lasts several days. Qualified Israeli diagnosticians use various examination methods. The most popular diagnostic solutions are:

Biopsy . After receiving the material, specialists perform a histological examination of it.

Angiography . Thanks to this technique, you can learn about the functional characteristics of the circulatory systems of the brain and detect (or not detect) pathologies in them.

Electroencephalography . Allows you to accurately determine the state of the structures and tissues of the spinal cord and brain, understand the severity of their damage by the tumor and the level of current brain activity.

PET-CT, MRI and CT. Instrumental examination methods that have maximum information content in the case of the disease we are considering. The doctor can find out the size and shape of the tumor, its location and the proximity of brain structures to it;

• Stage 3. Conclusions of Israeli specialists and development of a treatment regimen. Only after receiving the information “obtained” during the diagnosis, Israeli experts develop an individual, detailed plan for combating meningioma. The team of medical experts includes a radiologist, a neurologist and a neurosurgeon.

At the last stage, the actual treatment process begins. We will dwell on it a little later.

A little more about developing a treatment program

One of the features of Israeli clinics is that a personalized treatment regimen is created for each patient. In other words, it is impossible to say in advance how the healing will proceed. When developing a scheme, experts take into account:

• The size and exact location of the tumor;
• Goals to be achieved;
• Individual characteristics of the patient;
• The nature and rate of tumor development;
• Information that was obtained during diagnostics, etc.

Not in all cases, the main task in identifying meningioma is its immediate treatment. The patient may be prescribed medical observation in cases where there are no critical manifestations of the disease, the tumor is small in size and has a slow rate of development. In order to eliminate all risks, the patient will need to undergo regular assessment and scanning of the tumor. But if risks are present, therapeutic treatment begins.

Methods to combat the disease

The main principle of treatment in Israeli clinics is that the fight against the disease should begin only after a detailed analysis of the information obtained through diagnosis and the development of a personalized scheme for combating meningioma.

In their work, Israeli specialists have the opportunity to use exclusive methods and technologies of the latest generation. Current treatment options for meningioma:

• Medication techniques. Let’s say right away that Israeli specialists rarely resort to medications in the case of this disease. They may use drugs, for example, to reduce the size of a malignant tumor before surgery, or after surgery to remove remnants of the meningioma (tissue and cells) and prevent the risk of the tumor reappearing.

In the case of drug treatment, modern means of targeted therapy and chemotherapy are used, which have proven and highly effective antitumor activity and do not harm the health of the body. Innovative medications can also stimulate the immune system to fight meningioma cells;

• Radiation stereotactic technique. If the tumor cannot be completely destroyed due to its proximity to vital tissues and structures of the brain, the tumor should be resected. The cancer cells will be exposed to an ionizing, high-frequency radiation beam that is locally targeted to the meningioma. Subsequently, the remnants of the tumor are removed in the surgical field;

• Surgical intervention. Tumor cells are destroyed using innovative surgical endoscopic techniques. In a “set” with it, the surgeon uses modern microsurgical instruments, inserting an endoscope through the patient’s nose and removing the tumor under video surveillance. The patient's brain structures remain intact.

Israeli medical experts have other methods and techniques at their disposal to combat meningioma. Therefore, the percentage of cured patients in clinics in this country invariably remains as high as possible. If it is not possible to visit Israel in person, you can use a video consultation

Cost of treatment - where to go for information? 

It is impossible to say exactly how much it will cost to get rid of meningioma in Israeli clinics. Since the cost of treatment is determined taking into account the prescribed procedures and techniques.

Prices for medical institutions depend on many factors - the equipment and instruments available in clinics, the professionalism of employees, the number of staff, etc.

Approximate prices should be obtained upon individual request. In addition, the approximate cost of certain tests and procedures can be found on the official website of the Israeli Ministry of Health. Another option is to ask the cost of medical services by calling or writing online to the specialists of a particular clinic.

Why do Russians and Europeans choose Israel for diagnosis and treatment?

One of the most important questions, the answers of patients to which looks like this:

• The ability to pay for diagnostics and treatment not entirely at once, but “in stages.” That is, gradually after a certain procedure has been carried out;
• There is no upfront payment required for diagnosis or treatment;
• The percentage of people successfully cured of meningioma in Israeli clinics is one of the most impressive in the whole world;
• Qualified experts have at their disposal innovative technology, tools and techniques that have no analogues in other countries of the world;
• Treatment can be performed using not just modern, but even experimental medications;
• Doctors do not set themselves the task of collecting as much money as possible from patients for treatment and diagnosis. Their goal is to do their job: to relieve the patient of health problems as efficiently and as quickly as possible;
• Israeli medical workers are usually called experts in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases. The qualifications of Israeli specialists allow them to successfully cope even with the 3rd degree of severity of meningioma.