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…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Infectiology Three cases, three therapeutic strategies At the Bern GP Day, Prof. Dr. med. Hansjakob Furrer from the University Clinic for Infectiology at Inselspital used three examples to show when empirical antibiotic therapy is indicated without…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 1st Bern Atrial Fibrillation Day Current questions and answers about the most common cardiac arrhythmia Atrial fibrillation (VHF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, already affects about 100,000 people in Switzerland. Within the next 50 years, the prevalence is expected to double. Reason enough to give…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Congress of the American College of Cardiology (ACC 2014 Washington) News and scientific highlights At the end of March, more than 13,000 cardiologists from around the world gathered in Washington DC to present and discuss the latest scientific findings in the field of prevention,…
