Affordable Radiosurgery in Monterrey – Affordable, High Tech Cancer Care in Mexico

Medical Travel, also known as Medical Tourism, is not only helping tens of thousands to get a fresher new look with affordable plastic surgery abroad, but it also keeps growing into services that were never before thought possible. A specific area which is often overlooked is cancer care. Although going overseas for plastic surgery or weight loss procedures can help you save around 50%, the pricing differential in non-elective procedures such as tumor removal surgeries or radiotherapy is even greater.

As an emerging medical travel destination, the city of Monterrey, Mexico everyday offers more interesting healthcare specialties at its four JCI-accredited hospitals with an army of US-trained doctors. Such is also the case of cancer care. Not only have the top oncologists teamed together to form cancer-specialized centers, but also the equipment they manage is increasingly sophisticated. Heather Wicklow, Manager at Travel for Care, a local medical travel firm states “We are giving great focus to the market for non-elective procedures since our top-notch providers are extremely competitive not only in price but in quality and sophistication.”

A good example is how Travel For Care has assembled a specialized team of oncologists and neurosurgeons that are able to treat not only patients needing conventional radiotherapy, but most importantly brain tumors with stereotaxic radiosurgery. Headed by Dr. Cuauhtémoc De La Peña, based out of Hospital San Jose TEC (JCI-accredited) and equipped with a SIEMENS 10MeV Linear Accelerator with Brainlab planning systems, the team is ready for foreign patients that arrive and are thoroughly tested on day 1, get surgery on day 2, and leave on day 3. All costing around $17,000 while back home in the US it would go for over $40,000. A city so far known for business and manufacturing is on track to become a medical travel hub serving thousands of uninsured and under-insured Americans.

Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey is one of Monterrey’s best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico’s largest private education system. For more information, please visit www.hsj.com.mx

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel start-up firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

Hope Found South Of The Border: Reasonably-Priced Bone Marrow Transplants

Affordable Bone Marrow Transplants in Monterrey

Can you name a health issue that would have you desperately looking for over $250,000 in order to save your life? Unfortunately there are a few cancer types and certain illnesses that fall into this range. What makes them really catastrophic is not only their devastating effects on a person and its family, but also the financial ruin that looms on all of them. It shouldn’t be this way.

Bone Marrow Transplant Ruins Family. Stories like this one are commonplace. Insurance companies may cover part of it, but whatever is not covered is still huge. Other policies and payers may cover part of it, but only to a maximum which, even if high, is still too low for such cases. Lastly there’s those unlucky enough not to have coverage at all, and have to raise funds from all sources to get it done. Why does it have to be this way? Why pay $250,000 for something that can be done for under half that amount? Why haven’t they looked abroad?

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the transplantation of blood stem cells derived from the bone marrow (in this case known as bone marrow transplantation) or the blood. Stem cell transplantation is a medical procedure in the fields of hematology and oncology, most often performed for people with diseases of the blood, bone marrow, or certain types of cancer. It is a well known procedure in which many surgeons from all over the world have specialized in these last years. It requires technology and experience. It can certainly be done away from your hometown. Therefore, find yourself a place with those characteristics and you’ll have a place where thousands can find hope.

As Gabriel Senior, Founder of Travel for Care, a leading medical travel firm states “There is a substantive lack of knowledge by U.S. patients and their families about high quality, low cost alternatives nearby. Monterrey is Latin America’s most developed city, and it offers patients a close, simple, all-encompassing approach to their needs with very affordable prices, and the same high quality service, treatments, and procedures that one would expect at a top hospital in the U.S.” This is also valid for bone marrow transplants. At Hospital San Jose TEC de Monterrey, the city’s best-regarded healthcare institution, the IMEHT hematology practice performs these procedures routinely with a total cost averaging $30,000 and rarely exceeding $100,000. Dr. Jose Rafael Borbolla, the director of the IMEHT practice says “After catering to patients from all Mexico for years, we are eager to get the voice out there and begin serving the US population. We offer our cutting edge technology, and vast experience in the field at prices that seem unbelievable to most Americans.”

These diseases of the blood, bone marrow, and certain cancers give people very little time before treatment. With healthcare costs in the United States continuing to rise at higher rates than inflation, an escape valve for some is being found abroad. As one of the main Medical Travel destinations, Monterrey has internationally accredited hospitals and top-notch doctors that are increasingly treating foreign patients from everything ranging between plastic surgery to cancer. A city which not many Americans know about today is on track to provide one of the solutions sought by everyone debating this difficult issue.

Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey is one of Monterrey’s best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico’s largest private educational system. For more information, please visit www.hsj.com.mx

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel start-up firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

Contact:

Heather Wicklow

Travel For Care

(800) 571-0640

heather@travelforcare.com

www.travelforcare.com

Affordable Cancer Care, South Of The Border

Affordable Cancer Care

The price of ignorance is extremely high. Everyday, uninsured and underinsured citizens in the US face the destabilizing economic burden of having to pay for very expensive necessary medical treatments and procedures, which end up eating into their savings or plunging them into debt. However, people must start finding other options, ones which do not try to solve the problem by blaming it on the government, on free markets, or on their employer for not covering their health as part of benefits. It is time for Americans to realize that to get affordable healthcare, they must no longer search locally. It is a global world.

Human nature makes some people avoid to the high costs of treatment and not bring financial ruin to their families, therefore pushing them to unnecessary and absurd deaths. It is like if having suddenly acquired a feared illness, many must decide between trying to save themselves at a high cost or letting go of life in generosity. This must end. One of the answers lies much closer than you think.

Medical Travel is no longer for those seeking to combine a few days in the sun with an injection of Botox or two. It is creating a huge industry filling this unmet need for affordable healthcare with  interesting options and without sacrificing quality. As one of the main Medical Travel destinations, Monterrey, Mexico counts with internationally accredited hospitals and top-notch doctors that are increasingly treating foreign patients from everything ranging from plastic surgery to cancer. Gabriel Senior, founder of Travel For Care, a leading medical travel facilitator, states that “There is a substantive lack of knowledge by Americans about the high quality, low cost alternatives in healthcare that they can obtain nearby. Monterrey is a practical solution, that offers an all-encompassing approach to healthcare needs with very affordable prices, and the same high quality service, treatments, and procedures that one would expect at a top hospital in the U.S.”

As Cancer makes up the second cause of death in the United States, claiming more than 560 thousand lives per year, many more uninsured or underinsured people are turning to places like Monterrey to seek affordable cancer treatments. From inexpensive cancer tissue removal surgeries, to chemotherapy cycles, and from the long radiotherapy treatments to the short and very targeted radiosurgery ones, prices for top-notch care in the best hospitals in Monterrey are about a fourth of those in comparable US hospitals. As Dr. Cuauhtemoc De La Peña, one of the top Radiosurgeons AT Hospital San Jose TEC de Monterrey, who has experience working in both Mexico and France says “Although we are attracting US patients for radiotherapy treatments with the most advanced linear accelerators in the market at prices easily under $17,000 for 30 sessions, our most interesting product is Radiosurgery, where a single, very well planned session can neutralize a brain tumor, and it also goes for around that price”.

It is very important to point out that accessing these kinds of prices absolutely does not mean sacrificing quality. Price differentials between countries and currency parities create the opportunity for Americans to enjoy for a very low price, what only the wealthiest and best insured of Mexicans can access. Hospital San José TEC is one of these examples. It boasts an international accreditation from the Joint Commission International, a body of experienced specialists in all areas, and is equipped with state-of-the-art technology for all disciplines. With this industry set to boom in the next few years, a place which not many Americans know about today is on track to provide one of the solutions sought by countless numbers of people who are debating this difficult health cost issue.

Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey is one of Mexico’s best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico’s largest private educational system. For more information, please visit www.hsj.com.mx

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com

Contact:

Heather Wicklow

Manager

Travel For Care

Heather@travelforcare.com

Toll Free: (800)571-0640