Cancer treatment in China — what to check before you consider travelling
We coordinate remote case reviews and, where it makes sense, treatment. We also tell a lot of people not to come. This page explains how to tell which one you are.
A real person replies within 12 hours — not a bot, and we never cold-call.
Why people look abroad for this — and why the usual argument does not apply
How long it takes
Two halves. Ours is a promise we already publish site-wide. The hospital's half is theirs to set, and we will not put a number on it for them.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| Within 12 hours | A real person replies — not a bot, and never a cold call afterwards. |
| Within 48 hours | A written response: whether a hospital here can help, what it would involve, roughly how long you would be in China, and what the bill is made of. If the answer is that you should stay at home, that is what it will say. |
What the bill is made of
We publish what the parts are before we can publish what they cost. The treatment figure comes from the hospital, per case, once a clinician has seen your records — and our own fee is quoted to you as its own line rather than folded into theirs.
- The hospital’s charges — which for cancer depend on stage, protocol and how treatment responds, so no ceiling can honestly be published in advance.
- Diagnostics repeated on arrival. Staging is almost always redone locally before anyone commits to a plan.
- Accommodation and living costs for a stay measured in weeks or months, usually with someone travelling with you.
- Our coordination fee — quoted separately with your plan.
Not included:
- Flights, visas and accommodation — we arrange them, you pay the supplier directly.
- Anything the hospital finds on examination that changes the plan. If that happens we tell you the moment we know, not afterwards.
- Treatment at home before or after your trip.
- Any promise about how treatment will go. Nobody can offer you that, and anybody who does is telling you something they cannot know.
When we will tell you not to come
Not a disclaimer. These are the cases we turn away, and you should check yourself against them before spending any more time on this.
- You have a treatment plan and a start date at home. Take it. Travel time is treatment time.
- Your team has told you the situation is urgent.
- You are looking for a therapy your own doctors have said is not supported by evidence. We do not arrange stem-cell or anti-ageing treatment, and we do not coordinate care whose purpose is to obtain an unproven therapy.
- You are not well enough to fly, or could not manage weeks away from your own support network.
Start with the records you already have.
A person replies within 12 hours; a written answer follows within 48 hours — including if that answer is to stay where you are.
Questions
Nothing on this page is medical advice, and none of it is a diagnosis. China Medical Journey coordinates care; the treating clinician decides what is appropriate.
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