This content is machine translated 12th National Laser Congress An overview of tattoo removal and skin tightening procedures The twelfth national laser congress of the Swiss Society for Medical Laser Applications (SGML) in Zurich focused on the possibilities of de-tattooing. If you want to actually remove a permanent…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Treat psoriasis in practice With plaster against psoriasis plaques Topical steroids are the drugs of choice for milder forms of psoriasis. In addition to conventional creams, patches containing active ingredients are also available for treatment. An important advantage of…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Chronic wounds Better sheets, smart beds and innovations from veterinary medicine At a training event held at EMPA, the Research and Service Institute for Materials Science and Technology Development of the ETH Domain, the question of how the situation of patients…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated New therapeutic option Hay fever – new hope against the underestimated widespread disease? Not all people long for sunny and warm days already in the spring. Many suffer from hay fever, an often underestimated common disease. Severely affected patients suffer from reduced performance…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated German-speaking European School of Oncology in St. Gallen The pros and cons of antiangiogenic therapy in first-line treatment. At a DESO advanced training course in St. Gallen, Prof. Volker Heinemann, MD, Munich, and Prof. Werner Scheithauer, MD, Vienna, led a discussion on the use of first-line antiangiogenic therapies.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer How should action be taken without accurate study results? What is the evidence for primary tumor and metastasis in breast carcinoma? Are there treatment options that will not harm the child if a pregnant woman is found to have…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 5th SSHO in St. Gallen How do advances in treatment translate to clinical practice? Several studies in the area of chronic lymphocytic leukemia have attracted attention in recent years, most notably, of course, the CLL11 study, which demonstrated a clear benefit of the combination…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated HSP90 inhibition A new therapeutic approach for breast cancer In an initial phase II study in metastatic breast cancer, the HSP90 inhibitor ganetespib has shown promising antitumor activity in HER2-positive and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Due to the favorable…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 2nd EORTC St. Gallen Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference 2014 VEGF inhibition in metastatic colorectal cancer. The use of the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab improves the outcome of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer regardless of the chemotherapy chosen. Recent data suggest that the duration of VEGF inhibition…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated News on melanoma therapy at ASCO 2014 How do immunotherapies work in combination and in the adjuvant setting? In the course of this year’s ASCO congress in Chicago at the beginning of June, new results of the phase Ib study on the combination of PD1 and CTLA4 inhibition…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Allergies in the family practice Proven and new methods for clarification and therapy At the fourth congress of the Young Family Doctors Switzerland (JHaS) in Thun, Prof. Dr. med. Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Head Physician of the Dermatology Clinic at the University Hospital Zurich, spoke…
