This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Which first-line therapy for patients with wild-type RAS? At this year’s ESMO Congress in Madrid, treatment options for metastatic colorectal cancer were also discussed. Is there an optimal strategy for patients with a wild-type RAS mutation, and would…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Medidays: Update Hematology Anemia, new anticoagulants, and CLL. At Medidays, the internal medicine training program of the University Hospital Zurich (USZ), presentations were also given on various hematology topics. How is anemia meaningfully clarified? Which patients should be…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated From different normal values to erectile dysfunction The top 10 problems of hypertension therapy Although the treatment of arterial hypertension is part of the “daily bread” in family practice, it also causes headaches time and again. This is because there are a number of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Addiction Medicine Many addicts suffer from lung and liver diseases At the Swiss Family Docs Congress, André Seidenberg, MD, Zurich, and Philip Bruggmann, MD, Zurich, presented a workshop on addiction medicine. The focus was not on addiction per se, but…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Dermatology Is this suspicious skin change a skin cancer? When patients come to the office with skin lesions that are suspicious of skin cancer, often even the primary care physician is unsure how to proceed. Prof. Dr. med. Ralph…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Diabetes Therapy State of the art – what do you need to know about the new active ingredients? At the Swiss Family Docs conference at the Kongresshaus Zurich, the topic of diabetes was also addressed. In a comprehensive and detailed overview, Prof. Roger Lehmann, MD, Zurich, presented the…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Prevention Summit Lowering blood pressure to prevent dementia? Vascular dementia was the subject of a presentation at the Prevention Summit at the University Hospital Zurich. PD Dr. med. Urs Schwarz, University Hospital Zurich, gave an overview of this…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Hot Line Sessions Which studies were “hot” this year? The Hot Line Sessions are traditionally the best-attended sessions at the ESC Congress, as they present new results of practice-relevant and potentially practice-changing studies from the entire field of cardiology…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Guidelines at the ESC Congress 2014 What is different, what is new? Several new guidelines were also presented at this year’s ESC Congress in Barcelona. Enclosed is an overview of recommendations from pulmonary embolism, myocardial revascularization, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic disease, and noncardiac…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Glioblastoma and brain metastases Immune system can be harnessed A study at the ESMO Symposium in Geneva shows: Brain metastases have dense concentrations of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, i.e., an immune-active environment. Second, both primary and secondary brain carcinomas cause high…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology What does the zebrafish do better than us? In the course of the 6th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) in Berlin, a press conference was held to discuss the extent to which modern dialysis…
