This content is machine translated Breast Cancer Overweight and diabetes unfavorable for therapy success Diabetes mellitus and obesity have long been recognized as cardiovascular risk factors. They also have a negative effect on breast cancer patients: Compared to metabolically healthy and normal-weight patients, the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Gene expression test EndoPredict Prognostic tool for the prediction of local recurrence risk The EndoPredict prognostic gene expression test is good at distinguishing breast cancer patients at high or low risk for local recurrence, according to an Austrian study. In addition, the study…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Post-irradiation Also useful in case of involvement of fewer lymph nodes? In breast cancer patients with involvement of only a few lymph nodes, post-mastectomy radiation should not be omitted. A large meta-analysis of a total of 22 randomized trials makes clear…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Contraception Prescription of the pill – what the family doctor needs to know Safe contraception is a need for millions of people and a key contributor to improving women’s health. Every year, 70,000 women die as a result of unplanned, unwanted pregnancies and…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Abdominal surgeries New generation of surgical robots put into operation Since the robot-assisted technology was introduced at the Hirslanden Clinic in 2005 as a new standard in urology, doctors have already performed over 1000 procedures with the previous robot (“Da…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Gynecological topics in practice From menstrual cramps to medications in pregnancy The annual symposium for general practitioners and gynecologists was held in Olten at the end of January. HAUSARZT PRAXIS was on site and reports on the one hand about the…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Cimicifuga racemosa Phytotherapy versus hormone replacement therapy Cimicifuga racemosa is a herbal medicine commonly used in clinical practice in peri- and postmenopausal women. Like hormone replacement therapy, it is used in menopausal syndrome. Christine Bodmer, MD, of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 1st Swiss Symposium Peritoneal Malignancies and HIPEC Enabling individualized treatment At the first Swiss symposium on peritoneal malignancies and HIPEC in St. Gallen, experts spoke on the topics of ovarian cancer and metastatic colorectal cancer. It was about current and…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Mamma Screening Between statistics and casuistry Once again, a health policy bombshell has burst in the Sunday press. The Swiss Medical Board questions systematic breast screening. As was to be expected, the tsunami of outrage arrived…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Contraception “There are monopreparations that are equally effective as combined pills” HAUSARZT PRAXIS met with PD Dr. med. Sibil Tschudin, Head Physician of the Department of Gynecological Social Medicine and Psychosomatics in Basel. The renowned expert in the field of contraception…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Highlights of the symposium at the Inselspital Bern How to respond to cervical cancer in pregnancy? The twelfth annual symposium of the Breast and Tumor Center at the Inselspital Bern, which was held at the end of December 2013, focused this time on cervical carcinoma. What…