Now it's the hottest season of the year again, and the coming of the summer vacation for students also ushers in the peak season for Chinese people to travel to Japan. We will find that in the past two years, more and more Chinese people choose to travel to Japan for medical checkups, and many of them choose the Japanese advanced medical checkup package of Zhixin Health.
So customers often ask how to choose between hospitals in Tokyo and Osaka? This article will explain in detail the difference between hospitals and medical checkup packages in Osaka and Tokyo and how to choose.
What are the differences between hospitals in Osaka and Tokyo?Osaka City University Hospital of Medical Sciences and Tokyo Cancer Research Ariake Hospital are also the designated international user service providers for these two hospitals. The two hospitals also have different appointment cycles: Tokyo Cancer Research Ariake Hospital has a long appointment cycle of five to six months in advance, while Osaka City University Hospital of Medical Sciences requires about one month in advance.
To briefly explain the difference between these two hospitals, Osaka City University Hospital is a general hospital with a full range of departments and medical checkups, while Tokyo Cancer Research Ariake Hospital is an oncology specialty hospital that focuses on the treatment and research of tumors, so Cancer Research Ariake Hospital's advanced medical checkup packages are mainly for early screening of cancer.
While the medical checkup packages of the two hospitals are different, both hospitals belong to Japan's specific function hospitals, which are equivalent to domestic tertiary hospitals. These hospitals have developed medical technology and advanced equipment, so the indicators of the medical checkups are more accurate compared to other hospitals, and the experience of the medical checkup customers is better.
What are the differences between the physical examination programs and packages of the two hospitals?We are going to compare the two hospitals in terms of the Premium 2-Day Package, which has the largest number of medical checkups and is chosen by the majority of our clients.
What is the full range of medical checkups at Osaka City University Hospital?
Because it is a general hospital, it includes tests related to cardiovascular diseases, such as carotid MRI and head MRI, atherosclerosis tests, cirrhosis of the liver, and diabetes screening.
For customers, after the physical examination, they can know more clearly whether their cerebrovascular, carotid artery and heart functions are normal, whether they have brain tumors, whether they have the risk of heart and brain infarcts, whether they have diabetes and other health problems. From this, we can see that Osaka City University Hospital's advanced medical checkup package includes a wide range of items that you won't find at Tokyo Cancer Research Ariake Hospital.
What level of medical checkup is Tokyo Cancer Research Ariake Hospital?
Not really, it actually varies from person to person. Because this is a hospital specializing in oncology, the medical checkup program also focuses mainly on cancer tumor screening, and the gastroenteroscopy under general anesthesia, which is a must in the package, is used to screen for digestive tract diseases.
On the other hand, the package at Osaka City University Hospital of Medical Sciences has an optional colonoscopy, and a gastroscope, which is usually a local anesthesia nasal-entry type, which allows you to see the folds of the organs in the body (intestines and stomach) and the fine diseased tissues (nodules, polyps, etc.) more clearly than a radiological examination with a composite of a few pictures.
Chest CT and sputum cell tests are used for lung tumors; abdominal ultrasound, CT, and fecal occult blood tests are used to screen for diseases of the digestive tract (in addition to the stomach and colon). Screening tools for thyroid cancer (thyroid ultrasound and functional blood markers), cervical cancer (HPV viral testing), uterine body cancer (cytology), and breast cancer (breast ultrasound and molybdenum targets).
After all this, whether to go to Japan for medical checkups and choose a hospital in Tokyo or Osaka depends on the individual's different needs, so if you don't know much about it, you can call and consult with us, and take all factors into consideration before making a final decision!