Singapore is the second country in South-east Asia to offer proton beam therapy or PBT.
SINGAPORE - Ms Leong Pei Ying, 41, is grateful that proton beam therapy is now available in Singapore, and is covered by her Integrated Shield Plan .
“My doctor suggested whole-brain radiation,” she said. “When I asked about side effects, he said it might affect my mental capacity, make me forgetful, and as it was just behind my right eye, it could also affect my vision. The risk was too high.”“The prognosis for her is good,” said her radiation oncologist, Dr Looi Wen Shen. Before the PBT treatment, the pace of disease progression was picking up and the tumour was growing, so she had surgery to reduce the size of the tumour in January.
Singapore is the second country in South-east Asia to offer PBT. The other is Thailand, but treatment is exclusively for Thai nationals. He added that at NCCS, “the top three cancers that were treated using proton therapy to date are head and neck cancer, prostate cancer, as well as cancers of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system arising in children, adolescents and young adults”.
Claims from MediShield Life must also meet certain criteria, such as “an expected survival of more than five years after treatment with PBT”.The majority of PBT patients here are locals.
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