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Oncology is the medical field that researches identifies and treats various types of cancer such as breast cancer, skin cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and lung cancer. Oncology includes medical oncology in which chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and other drugs are used, radiation oncology in which radiation therapy is used, and surgical oncology in which surgery and other procedures are used to treat cancer. 

Silhouette Lift or silhouette derma lift is a non-surgical facelift procedure designed to give the face a fresher look by firming the sagging areas around brows, cheeks, jawline, chin, and neck with tightening collagen threads inserted deep under the skin through minimal incisions around hairlines.

Brachioplasty is a cosmetic procedure designed to reshape the underside of the drooping upper arm by removing extra skin and fat to give a more toned and balanced contour. This sagging condition is also called “bat wings”. There are 3 common types of Brachioplasty: upper arm lift, mini arm lift, and extended Brachioplasty. Your plastic surgeon chooses the most suitable one for you depending on your arms’ condition and your cosmetic expectation.

Blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery is a type of cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin or fat from the eyelids. This popular procedure aims to improve hooded eyes or droopy eyelids or eye bags.

There are 2 types of blepharoplasty: upper eyelift and lower eyelift surgery. An upper eyelid blepharoplasty is a different operation from upper eyelid ptosis surgery. Ptosis surgery aims to raise the position of the upper eyelid margin by tightening the muscle and tendon.

Gastric sleeve surgery, also called sleeve gastrectomy, is a weight loss surgery that removes about %80 of the stomach and restricts the amount of food that can be eaten. Like other weight loss surgeries such as gastric bypass, gastric lap band, and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy also promotes weight loss by changing and reducing hormonal hunger signals between the stomach and brain. The gastric sleeve, also known as a vertical sleeve gastrectomy, is recently the most popular bariatric procedure, with over half of patients choosing and are being chosen this procedure for their treatment.

According to the declaration of renal experts from European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association and American Society of Nephrology, chronic kidney diseases affect more than 850 million people worldwide as of 2018. This is twice the number of diabetics (422 million) and more than 20 times the number of people with cancer (42 million). 10 percent of men and nearly 12 percent of women around the world have kidney disease, and as much as 10.5 million people need dialysis or a kidney transplant.

Gastric sleeve surgery, also called sleeve gastrectomy, is a weight loss surgery performed by removing approximately 80 percent of the stomach. The remaining part of the stomach through this surgery becomes a tube-shaped pouch that seems like a banana. The procedure reduces the size of your stomach and restricts the amount of food you can eat, helping you feel full without eating too much.

Beard transplantation is a procedure that provided satisfactory results that have been increasingly performed in the last 10 years, parallel with the remarkable technical progress of hair restoration. This is one of the most preferred types of plastic surgery worldwide and an excellent option for patients naturally beardless or with patchy beards and to hide undesired facial scars in beard areas.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery, as a kind of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), is a cut-free and effective procedure that aims to treat benign and malignant brain tumors. While the Gamma Knife radiation treatment is applied in high precision to the target tissue within or around the brain, any effect on surrounding healthy tissue is minimized at the same time. The term "knife" in its name may be led to misunderstanding; however, there is no knife or cutting implementation is actually involved at any stage of this treatment.

CyberKnife radiosurgery (CKRS) is a painless and cut-free treatment that precisely delivers radiation to cancerous and non-cancerous tumors anywhere in the body including the brain, kidneys, neck, and head. CyberKnife is the most suitable treatment for recurrent tumors after prior radiotherapy treatments. Other than brain lesions, small tumors in the lungs, liver, and spine can also be effectively treated using CyberKnife.