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Cancer Treatment (Oncology) · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mastectomy cost in Dubai

Procedure from

$4,080

All-in from United States

≈ $7,010

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MPI · Procedure Index · how

Procedure price range · Dubai

Cheaper than 8% of cities pricing this

$4,080lowest $8,850typical $13,600highest

Updated 2026-07-09 · How we collect & verify prices Compare clinics ↓

In plain words · Mastectomy is a medical procedure — the prices below are what hospitals publish for it.

Mastectomy (Breast Removal Surgery)

Procedure from
$4,080
lowest listed
Typical
$8,850
city midpoint
All-in
≈ $7,010
from United States
MPI Index
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Clinics
11
in Dubai

Top hospital in Dubai · Newsweek #2 in United Arab Emirates

#2 American Hospital Dubai AA 4.1★ JCI accredited

Opened in 1996, American Hospital Dubai was the first hospital in the Middle East to earn JCI accreditation and is the inaugural regional member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. A 254-bed private hospital in Oud Metha where all physicians are American Board Certified, it spans 40+ specialties with strengths in oncology, cardiology and robotic surgery.

Procedure in Dubai from $4,080 — full price data below.

See profile & prices →

Procedure price in Dubai, local currency

Imported — unverified

The published market range in local currency, with today's conversions.

AED 15,000–AED 50,000

≈ $4,080–$13,600 · €3,580–€11,900 · £3,050–£10,200 · A$5,890–A$19,600 — converted at the open.er-api.com (central-bank composite) rate of 2026-07-09

Vs home markets

  • United States Not yet sourced
  • United Kingdom Not yet sourced
  • Australia Not yet sourced
  • Germany Not yet sourced

Spread 233% across 1 data point — a wide range means quotes are negotiable and case-dependent.

Price history — snapshotted since 2026-07-19; the trend line appears with the next snapshot.

Currency exposure — bills are in AED: a 5% move against your currency shifts the mid-range by ≈ $442 either way. Converted at the open.er-api.com (central-bank composite) rate of 2026-07-09.

Directory data Private market total-bill

From our 2025 Bangkok market research — not yet independently re-verified. Actual quotes vary by clinic and case.

Hospitals & clinics in Dubai

Best first

The best hospitals first — Newsweek World's Best national top 10 lead, then our connected-chain grade. Re-rank by cheapest, rating or reviews.

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All-in trip cost

Modeled preview

Procedure plus flights, hotel, transport and medication from United States — the number that actually decides it.

Procedure (from)
$4,080
Flights (round-trip) est.
$1,420
Hotel · 5 nights est.
$600
Local transport est.
$110
Medication est.
$800
All-in ≈
$7,010

Flights are estimated round-trip economy from United States (change in the header). Hotel, transport and medication are Medical Travel Cost estimates, not quotes. Procedure is the lowest price on this page.

Mastectomy in other cities

Imported

The same procedure across the registry — cheapest first. Cities we haven't priced yet show no number, never a guess.

City From vs Dubai MPI Specialists
Istanbul Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 26
Ankara Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 9
Antalya Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 3
İzmir Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 3
Bursa Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 1
Kocaeli Turkey $744 ★ -82% — 1
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam $1,530 -63% — 12
New Delhi India $1,560 -62% — 3
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia — not yet priced · being collected — —

Cheapest starting price per city, converted to your currency. ★ = lowest in the registry; cheapest ≠ best — the MPI column grades each market as its data lands. "—" is never guessed.

What's in the price — and why it varies

Modeled preview

A typical cost anatomy over the published total, and the factors that move a real quote up or down.

Typical cost anatomy

≈ $8,850
  • Surgeon & operating room$3,070
  • Anesthesia$767
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$1,950
  • Implants & materials$1,920
  • Post-op & follow-up$1,150

Usually included

  • ✓ Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • ✓ 5 nights' hospital stay
  • ✓ Standard implants & materials
  • ✓ Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise

What moves the price

  • 1Tumor type, stage and whether reconstruction is done in the same operation
  • 2Case complexity and how advanced the condition is
  • 3Surgeon seniority and case volume
  • 4Hospital tier, theatre and room class
  • 5Materials, implants or drug generation used
  • 6Anesthesia type and time in theatre
Published package inclusions per hospitalwhat each hospital's package price covers vs à-la-carte — the line-by-line comparison that settles quotes Not yet sourced

The split is modeled from typical cost structures; the total is the published price. Itemized hospital quotes replace this as they're sourced.

What you're buying — the spec sheet

Modeled preview

The countable facts of the purchase itself — setting, anesthesia, theatre time, visits and materials. Hospital-published specs replace the typicals as they're collected.

Setting
2-night hospital admission (typical)
Anesthesia
General or regional — case-dependent
Time in theatre
Not yet sourcedhospital-published — collected per hospital
Visits
One procedure + follow-up around day 7
Device / materials
Not yet sourcedwhat's implanted or used — collected per procedure

Typicals from the same model as the recovery timeline — your surgeon's plan for your case is the spec that counts. Every sourced spec raises this page's MPI coverage.

Recovery timeline

Modeled preview

Plan ~12 days in United Arab Emirates before flying home; back to work ~day 28, full recovery ~day 120. Your surgeon confirms your case.

  1. Day −2

    Arrive · consultation, tests & final treatment plan

  2. Day 0

    Procedure · admitted to the hospital

  3. Day 2

    Discharged from hospital (2 nights)

  4. Day 7

    First follow-up check with your doctor

  5. Day 10

    Typically cleared to fly home

  6. Day 14

    Walking & light activity comfortably

  7. Day 28

    Back to desk work

  8. Day 60

    Exercise & strenuous activity again

  9. Day 120

    Full recovery · final result (typical)

Back home — who takes care of you after

  • Before flying home Final review around day 7, before you're cleared to fly
  • First weeks back home A wound / progress check in the first weeks — doable locally with your records
  • Take with you Full operative notes, imaging and implant/protocol details — ask before discharge
  • Remote follow-up offered Not yet sourced
  • Complication support window Not yet sourced

The two hospital-policy rows are collected per hospital — remote follow-up and complication support are decision data, so they're never assumed.

Outcomes & success benchmarks

Not yet sourced

The outcome metrics that will grade this procedure in the Medical Travel Cost Index — filled from clinical registries and hospital-published data, never guessed.

0 of 7 outcome metrics sourced — each one raises this page's MPI coverage Show slots
  • 5-year survival (by stage) vs international cancer registries Not yet sourced
  • Success rate vs published international benchmarks Not yet sourced
  • Complication rate vs WHO/OECD averages Not yet sourced
  • Revision / re-treatment rate vs registry average Not yet sourced
  • Patient-reported satisfaction vs same procedure across the registry Not yet sourced
  • Procedures per year in this market hospital-published volumes · national statistics Not yet sourced
  • Annual volume at the busiest hospital here volume–outcome proxy · hospital-published Not yet sourced

Empty slots are deliberate — a number appears here only with a source behind it, never guessed.

United Arab Emirates for medical travel — safety, recourse & visa

Sourced Full United Arab Emirates guide →

What matters if it goes wrong, and what it takes to get there — country-level, verifiable guidance in one place.

Visa
Many Western nationalities (US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada) get a free visa on arrival for 30–90 days; from 2026 tourist-visa approvals in Dubai are processed in ~48 hours, and visa-on-arrival eligibility was expanded to six more nationalities (Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Kenya, South Africa). Confirm your nationality's rule before travelling.
Medical / long-stay visa
For treatment, foreign patients use a Medical Visa — an entry permit sponsored by a licensed UAE hospital (fees: AED 200 for a 90-day single entry, AED 500 for 180 days), typically covering ~30 days of initial treatment and extendable on medical documentation. Hospitals in Dubai Healthcare City, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and American Hospital Dubai coordinate approvals directly with the GDRFA.
Arrival
There is no digital arrival card; entry is via the visa/visa-on-arrival stamp. Residents (not short-stay medical visitors) must hold an Emirates ID.
Currency
UAE Dirham (AED, د.إ) — pegged at ~3.67 to the US dollar
Languages
Arabic is the official language; English is the working language of business and healthcare, and international hospitals operate in English with multilingual staff
Traveller safety
Very safe for visitors
Legal recourse
Established malpractice recourse
Insurance
Medical-travel & complication cover widely available
International patients
Hospitals accustomed to international patients

General guidance from public sources — confirm current rules for your nationality. Verified against: UAE Government — Patient & companion medical visa · GDRFA Dubai — Medical visa service · UAE Government — Tourist visa.

Risks & the questions to ask

Modeled preview

A planning frame — the risks are confirmed for your case by the specialist. The checklist is what an expert would ask before booking anywhere.

Common & temporary

Swelling, bruising, short-term pain

Serious & rare

Bleeding, infection, anesthesia reactions, revision surgery

How to de-risk

Ask the complication and revision rate for THIS procedure at THIS hospital, and what aftercare is included if something goes wrong

Eligibility — is this even for you?

Typical candidacy criteriaclinical guidelines · sourced per procedure Not yet sourced
Common contraindicationswhat typically rules it out — sourced per procedure Not yet sourced

Ask the specialist before you book

  1. 1Will my case be reviewed by a multidisciplinary tumor board?
  2. 2How many of this exact procedure did you perform last year?
  3. 3What is your complication and revision rate for it?
  4. 4What anesthesia will be used, and who administers it?
  5. 5Who manages my aftercare once I fly home, and how?
  6. 6What exactly is included in the quoted price — and what isn't?

Framework guidance modeled by procedure type — per-procedure clinical risk data replaces it as it's sourced.

Alternatives to mastectomy

Directory

What's typically considered instead, and when — suitability is a specialist's call, not a price comparison.

  • Radiation therapy → Typically chosen when a tumor is inoperable or as an organ-preserving option.
  • Chemotherapy Typically chosen to shrink a tumor before surgery or treat systemic disease.
  • Targeted / immunotherapy Typically chosen when the tumor's biology matches an approved agent.
  • Active surveillance Typically chosen for slow-growing tumors where treatment can safely wait.

Linked alternatives are priced in this city; the rest join as their pages go live.

Conditions & specialists for this

Directory

How this procedure connects to the conditions it treats and the specialists who perform it in Dubai.

Conditions this treats 1

Specialists for this 7

All 7 specialists →

Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition page, teal a specialist page, both priced for Dubai.

Medical Travel Cost Procedure Index

MPI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable grade per procedure page — each metric measured against the price registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

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80% of the formula backed by data

  • Price competitiveness 8 Imported cheaper than 8% of cities · vs 12 cities pricing this procedure · 8th percentile
  • Savings vs home — Not sourced — · needs a home-market price to compare
  • Price evidence 18 Imported 1 data point · sourced/verified price rows behind the range
  • Provider choice 100 Imported 11 clinics · providers offering it in this city
  • Provider trust 64 Our index 64/100 top · best provider's Trust Index

Same method as every hospital and procedure page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Common questions

Sourced + modeled

Short answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, stay length, safety and verification.

How much does mastectomy cost in Dubai?

The published range in Dubai is AED 15,000–AED 50,000 (typically around $8,850). Clinic quotes vary by case; this range is imported research, not yet independently re-verified.

How long do I need to stay in Dubai?

Plan roughly 12 days in United Arab Emirates for the typical case — arrival and consultation, the procedure, and follow-up before you're cleared to fly. Back to desk work around day 28 (modeled typical; your doctor confirms).

Is it safe to have mastectomy in United Arab Emirates?

Very safe for visitors for visitors, and established malpractice recourse. Hospital-level safety signals (accreditation, Trust Index) are listed per hospital below — availability and outcomes always depend on the individual provider.

Which hospitals in Dubai offer mastectomy?

11 cancer treatment (oncology) and multi-specialty providers are listed for Dubai, with a top Trust Index of 64/100. We list them as a directory — per-hospital availability is confirmed on each hospital's own page.

Are these prices verified?

Not yet — the range comes from our 2025 Dubai market research (oncologistindubai.com cancer-cost guide (mastectomy AED 15000-50000), corroborated by Tajmeels breast-surgery Dubai AED 15000-35000 range) and is marked ✓ only after we re-verify it against published clinic prices. Unverified numbers are always labeled.

Data & sources

11% verified Methodology →

How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

38%
data confidence · Low
Verified facts11%
Page filled78%
All 9 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • City price range· oncologistindubai.com cancer-cost guide (mastectomy AED 15000-50000), corroborated by Tajmeels breast-surgery Dubai AED 15000-35000 range Imported
  • Per-clinic prices Not yet collected
  • City comparison· 8 priced Imported
  • Provider directory· 11 clinics Imported
  • Outcome benchmarks· slots ready — feed the Index Not yet collected
  • Spec sheet & aftercare· 3 of 5 specs typed Modeled
  • Recovery timeline Modeled
  • Trip cost estimates Modeled
  • Visa & travel guidance ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Medical Travel Cost Index. Methodology →