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We treat patients over the age of 70. The most common reasons for treatment are severe depression or anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder or severe psychiatric symptoms related to memory disorders and substance abuse issues.

Head and neck cancer refers to malignant tumours of the head and neck region excluding the eyes, brain and thyroid.

Heart tests are used to examine possible functional disturbances of the heart. The most common heart tests are electrocardiogram (ECG), echocardiogram, and 24-hour ambulatory ECG.

Hematology is the medical discipline that studies and treats illnesses of the blood. The suspicion of a possible blood illness arises often when there are changes in the blood counts in laboratory testing of a blood sample.

We serve patients and the next of kin in Turku University Hospital, Turunmaa hospital, Turku City Hospital, Kaskenlinna Hospital, Karinakoti and some of the Turku and Kaarina elderly care wards. As pastoral counsellors we work for the holistic treatment of patients. You can discuss about…

The intestinal cancers include cancer of the colon and cancer of the rectum. These cancers have their origin in the glands of the inner surface of the intestine. They are the third most common cancers in Finland.

Cancer in the kidney (renal cancer, hypernephroma) causes blood to spill into in the urine which may be a first symptom. The cancer is visualized in imaging studies of the abdomen.

You will need to have a laboratory referral from the unit where your are being treated.

We know that many cancers can metastasize to the liver, but cancer in the liver itself is rather uncommon.

Lung cancer is the second most common form of cancer among men and the fourth most common one among women. In all of Finland, the annual number of new cases of lung cancer is around 2,300 and in the area of Southwest Finland around 200.