RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Radiotherapy in Turkey: the right technique for the right target
Modern radiation oncology uses imaging, planning and delivery techniques to treat the intended target while limiting dose to normal tissues. The machine itself does not determine whether a treatment is appropriate.
Medical decisions are made by the evaluating physicians and hospitals. MEDITRAVEL coordinates access and communication.
PATIENT DECISION PATHWAY
01
Diagnosis
Pathology · stage · imaging
02
Right team
Hospital · physician · tumour board
03
Decision
Plan · timeline · estimated cost
Technologies you may encounter
IMRT / VMAT
Conformal external-beam techniques commonly used for many tumour sites.
SRS / SBRT
Stereotactic treatments deliver highly focused radiation in selected cranial or extracranial cases.
MR-Linac
Combines MRI guidance with a linear accelerator and can support adaptive treatment in selected cases.
CyberKnife / Gamma Knife
Specialised stereotactic platforms with different clinical use cases.
TrueBeam
Linear-accelerator platform supporting several modern image-guided and stereotactic techniques.
Brachytherapy
Internal radiation used in selected cancers depending on anatomy and treatment strategy.
Previous radiotherapy changes the review
For re-irradiation, the previous plan and dose data — often including DICOM-RT files — can be essential for assessing feasibility and risk.
Hospital examples
Technology availability varies by campus and should always be checked for the specific case.
Acıbadem
The group lists MR-Linac, Gamma Knife, TrueBeam, TomoTherapy and CyberKnife across different hospitals.
Anadolu
Anadolu lists advanced radiotherapy platforms as part of its cancer programme.
Last editorial update: 2026-10-10. Medical background: NCI/ESMO. Hospital facts: public institutional sources and MEDITRAVEL partner pages. Sources & methodology.