This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Does vitamin D put the brakes on tumors? Prospective analysis of a phase III trial of metastatic colorectal cancer shows that higher vitamin D levels provide better outcomes. Patients not only lived significantly longer, but also later became…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy for complaints of the gastrointestinal tract There are several herbal strategies This article highlights the many ways in which gastrointestinal complaints can be treated with herbal applications. There are tea mixtures, tinctures and also ready-made herbal preparations, some of which have…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Colon irritabile (irritable bowel syndrome) Harmless, but severely limiting the quality of life In the case of symptoms typical of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), initial comprehensive diagnostics with erudition of alarm signs, colonoscopy if necessary, and in particular the exclusion of sprue are…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Bloody diarrhea Ulcerative colitis – current diagnostics and therapy Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of unknown etiology. The clinic consists of bloody mucopurulent diarrhea with accompanying tenesmus and rarely fecal incontinence. The relapses are classified according…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Gastrosurgical Colloquium at the University Hospital Zurich Viral hepatitis – an infection with many faces A colloquium at the University Hospital Zurich was devoted to the broad clinical spectrum of viral hepatitis. It addressed the issue of screening and special risk groups, as well as…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Therapies in geriatric oncology. Elderly patients with prostate or colorectal cancer As the population in Switzerland ages, even more people will develop cancer at an advanced age in the future. In these patients, treatment decisions are often complex because, due to…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Immunological and molecular biological aspects MALT type gastric lymphoma MALT lymphomas most commonly affect the stomach. Causally, there is a strong association with Helicobacter pylori (Hp) gastritis (over 90% of patients). With adequate antibiosis, Hp can be eradicated, leading…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Gastric Cancer HER2 inhibition may also prolong survival in gastric cancer A new molecular genetic classification of gastric cancer into four subtypes was recently proposed as part of the Cancer Genome Atlas project, which identifies all gene defects in all known…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Esophageal cancer in Switzerland A rare but dangerous tumor In the treatment of esophageal cancer, it is necessary to pay attention to a sufficiently high caloric intake from the first day of treatment. In locally advanced esophageal cancer, neoadjuvant…
View Post 4 min 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…
