Amberlife Latvian Virotherapy Center
Riga
, Lithuania
5
reviews
Price level Medium
RIGVIR
anti-cancer virus
2008
Year of foundation
50%
better than traditional therapy results
About clinic
Amberlife Cancer Clinic is a private international cancer center in Latvia. This is the first hospital in the world where the treatment of oncological diseases will be carried out with the help of virotherapy. This is a biotechnological cancer treatment, in which laboratory-modified viruses to target cancerous cells are used. Virotherapy is aimed at activating the patient's immunity, which is usually suppressed by radiation and chemotherapy.
At Amberlife Clinic, patients are offered a wide range of modern diagnostic procedures and comprehensive treatment of all types of oncological pathologies using RIGVIR. The drug has oncotropic and oncolytic properties.
Virotherapy is indicated to prevent the development of metastases and relapses, as well as at stages 3-4 of oncological diseases. It is particularly in demand after surgical treatment.
Amberlife Hospital has been operating since 2008. In 2019, the clinic received GCR accreditation. It is located in Jurmala.
Virotherapy is a modern cancer treatment
Virotherapy is a type of biotechnological therapy, in which, laboratory-modified viruses to target cancerous cells to fight cancer are used.
In 2004, a special RIGVIR virus was developed and patented by Latvian scientists. It was called the “Riga virus”. The drug finds pathogenic cells in the body, infects them, and destroys them. Virotherapy increases the body's immune abilities and preserves healthy tissues.
The benefits of virotherapy include:
- biological technique;
- the use of live non-pathogenic virus ECHO-7, which is able to recognize and attack malignant cells;
- successful impact on forms of cancer insensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy – melanomas, hypernephromas;
- up to 50% more effective than other applied methods of treatment;
- it can be combined with various types of therapy, thereby increasing the antitumor effect;
- it can be used on an outpatient basis;
- it is easily tolerated by patients.
All virotherapy preparations used in Amberlife Clinic are studied, with proven clinical effectiveness. The safety of the drug RIGVIR has been tested on several thousand patients. No side effects have been recorded.
Features of Amberlife Clinic
The medical staff of the clinic consists of experienced virotherapy specialists. Amber Life Hospital's strategy is to treat the patient's body as a whole by attacking the disease from all sides. To do this, the wide possibilities of integrative medicine are used.
Amber Life Clinic is equipped with modern medical equipment. Patients undergo accurate diagnostics using modern MRI and CT machines. The hospital employs surgeons who have experience in complex low-traumatic laparoscopic interventions.
An individual treatment regimen in the form of a document is developed by an oncologist and an immunologist. Therapy is usually carried out before or after surgery. Also, the course can be prescribed between sessions of chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Before starting treatment, a series of tests are performed and the patient's immune status is assessed using special tests. The patient stays in the clinic for several days to a week. The total duration of treatment is 3-6 months.
Patients are provided with several treatment packages: basic, standard, optimal, and premium.
Diseases Treated in Amberlife
The clinic successfully treats most types of cancer. Virotherapy is used for the following pathologies:
- melanoma;
- malignant brain tumors;
- lung cancer;
- breast cancer;
- malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract such as stomach, pancreas, liver, intestines;
- oncological diseases of female and male reproductive organs;
- prostate cancer;
- all types of sarcoma such as rhabdomyosarcoma, lymphosarcoma, reticulosarcoma, and angiosarcoma.
Patients also come to Amber Life for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, and chronic intoxication.
Oncology Treatment Technologies in Amberlife
Simultaneously with virotherapy, supportive therapy is conducted in the hospital, which increases the effectiveness of the main treatment. Among the procedures that have proven effective in the fight against cancer:
- Therapy with dendritic cells (vaccines), which is a form of immunotherapy. The technique involves the introduction of a vaccine. It is made from extracted patient cells that are incubated with cancer antigens. After activation, the cells are injected into the patient's body, after which they awaken T-lymphocytes that can destroy the tumor. The technology significantly improves the survival and quality of life of patients.
- Intravenous vitamin C therapy to enhance the metabolic processes of the body and increase immunity.
- Local hyperthermia is designed for the treatment of tumors and osteoarthromuscular pathologies, as well as for disorders of the immune system.
- Ozone therapy is the impact on atypical cells of a small amount of oxygen-ozone mixture. Ozone has a mild effect on tissues, eliminating the appearance of burns and necrosis. Drugs can be administered intravenously, in the form of injections, enemas.
- Robotic radiosurgery for tumor targeting without damaging healthy tissue.
- Intravenous curcumin therapy to enhance the immune capacity of patients. Curcumin has an antioxidant effect, helping the body destroy mutated cells.
To improve patient tolerance of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a special treatment technique using mistletoe has been developed. It has immunostimulatory and antitumor properties and reduces the side effects of chemotherapy.
Conditions for Foreign Patients
Amberlife Clinic provides a high level of medical care and service. All staff speaks English and Russian.
Patients are offered:
- preliminary study of the medical history and drawing up an individual treatment plan;
- accommodation in comfortable rooms (the choice of the patient is standard and superior rooms);
- food according to an individual diet;
- psychological support program in the patient's native language;
- transfer from the airport.
Amberlife Hospital is located in a resort area near the beach. This allows to use all the advantages of the resort town. Upon request, it is possible to organize sightseeing trips and assistance in booking a hotel room.
The best specialties of the hospital
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Oncology
Harijs Zariņš
5/5
Diagnosis: Stage II cancer
“If someone worries that this kind of therapy has not yet been fully studied by modern methods, then I can answer that patients don’t have time to wait for such experiments and their results. The patient needs medicine here and now! And, to survive, every minute is important. I would have been six feet under a long time ago, awaiting the results of recent research. There is no time to wait for studies that may last for several more years. I believe that if this medicine helped one person, it can be used by others. This is my free choice: to use the drug or not. Nobody said that this is a miracle remedy and will help me 100%. I decided to try, and it works. Analyzes confirm this. Moreover, this treatment method, unlike the others, does not have side effects.”
20/03/2018
Zoya Sokolova
5/5
Diagnosis: Uterine cancer
Stable life. Beloved children. I never thought that the terrible diagnosis of oncology would ever touch me … But it happened … Next: surgery, chemistry, radiation therapy, again chemistry, and complete bedriddenness! In this state, it was decided to start treatment with virotherapy. At that time, I started to believe in a miracle! A month later, I took on a complete sense of life! The bed is in the past! What a joy to return to a full life, work, travel, and understand that life goes on! I am infinitely grateful to you for the life given to me!
19/08/2018
Ingrida
5/5
Diagnosis: Prostate carcinoma
My husband would not have been alive for a long time, if he didn’t undergo virotherapy. In 2012, in Germany, he was diagnosed with prostate carcinoma with a grade of 8, very rapidly developing. According to forecasts, the husband had to live no more than two years. We decided to start treatment with virotherapy. Injections, performed according to the scheme in the process of virotherapy, stopped the development of the tumor. A year later, 2 large lymph nodes disappeared, after two years the third one also disappeared. Prostate carcinoma slowed down, continued to grow, but very slowly. I know other people who used virotherapy and they achieved the same results as my husband.
17/10/2017
Irena Ausma Rudneva
4/5
Diagnosis: Oncology
2 years ago I was diagnosed with oncology, stage II, I needed urgent therapy. I was plagued with the thought that I was becoming completely defenseless. Studying the literature, researching the Internet, I learned about the fight against cancer with the help of virotherapy based on the cytolytic effect of the drug and various ways to stimulate the body’s immunity in order to fight oncology. I had the opportunity to start treatment with virotherapy, and I remain true to this way of fighting for life for a year and a half. The state of health and the standard of living improved during the treatment, the progress of the examination still does not state the development of the disease, I can even work like everyone else.
21/06/2017
Lidia Stepanovna
5/5
Diagnosis: Osteoporosis
15/04/2018
Help pay for treatment
Experts Medical cooperates with foreign funds that help our patients pay for treatment
You can receive compensation up to 20,000 euros for the treatment of a patient under the age of 18
Cost of diagnostics and operations
Diagnostics
| Medical consultation | 40 - 70 $ | Enquire price |
| Immunodiagnostic | 1000 - 2500 $ | Enquire price |
Oncology
| Course of virotherapy | 10 000 - 18 000 $ | Enquire price |
Best clinic's doctors
Doctor Guna Proboka
Oncologist, immunologist
Work experience:
25 years
Achievements:
The doctor monitors patient’s immune system. She is specialized in the treatment of cancer and is a co-author of scientific publications such as “Possibilities of drug therapy for skin melanoma in Latvia”, “Immunotherapy (oncolytic virotherapy) with adapted ECHO-7 virus Rigvir prolongs survival in patients with melanoma after surgical excision of a tumor in a retrospective study” (the original name on English, and others.
Doctor Dace Baltinja
Oncologist
Work experience:
30 years
Achievements:
She is a doctor of medical sciences, associate professor of the RSU, chief specialist of the Ministry of Health in oncology. Author of several books and many scientific and popular science articles. The most popular and recognized book among patients is the book “Diagnosis is Cancer” which was re-published in Latvian and Russian.
Doctor Inta Jaunalksne
Immunologist
Work experience:
25 years
Achievements:
Member of the Board of the Association of Latvian Neuroimmunologists. Medical Researcher at the Latvian Virotherapy Center.
Doctor Linda Brokane
Oncologist
Work experience:
20 years
Achievements:
She is a specialist in oncology and virotherapy at the International Virotherapy Center. She has extensive experience in the field of medicine.
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Published 12.03.2019, Updated 23.05.2023