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 2 min This content is machine translated RAINBOW Study New standard in the second line? Drugs that are well established in first-line advanced gastric cancer continue to achieve relatively poor survival prognoses in second-line settings. A new study (RAINBOW) now demonstrates the efficacy of ramucirumab…
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 7 min This content is machine translated Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Curative treatment approach for peritoneal carcinomatosis. In certain tumor types and in malignancies with limited peritoneal carcinomatosis, it is possible to pursue a curative approach even at this stage of the disease by combining cytoreductive surgery…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Current therapy 2014 Surgical update on pancreatic cancer. The goal of surgery for pancreatic cancer is to remove the tumor in healthy tissue with the best possible safety distance of the tumor margin from the resection surfaces. Resectable…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Diagnostics and therapy in gastroesophageal reflux Reflux – a widespread disease? The increasing incidence of gastroesophageal reflux disease and the concomitant growing incidence and mortality of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus lead to an increasing health economic importance. Hand in hand with…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Surgical therapy of pancreatic carcinoma Extended resections – vessels, neighboring organs, recurrences The only chance of long-term survival in pancreatic cancer is radical resection (R0) with adjuvant chemotherapy. To achieve radical resection, extended surgery with resection of the venous porto-mesenteric vessels as…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Current therapy 2014 Surgical update on colon and rectal cancer. In the case of colorectal carcinoma, surgery is still the only way to cure the disease. Primary therapy of colon carcinoma consists of oncologic resection of the tumor-bearing bowel segment.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Surgical update - colorectal and pancreatic cancers. What’s new? This current issue of InFo ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY focuses on surgery for two important tumor entities: colorectal carcinoma and pancreatic carcinoma.
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Comparison between bevacizumab and cetuximab in KRAS exon2 wild type. According to preliminary results of a large phase III trial presented at this year’s ASCO congress, bevacizumab and cetuximab (combined with FOLFOX or FOLFIRI) show similar efficacy in terms of…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Gastric and esophageal cancer The scar heals, the questions remain As a therapist in oncology rehabilitation, I once encountered a patient who quoted her surgeon as saying, “I was able to remove your tumor completely. You are healthy again.” At…
