This content is machine translated Colorectal cancer screening Charter 2021 – Interprofessional cooperation for colorectal cancer screening The Swiss Cancer League recommends regular colorectal cancer screening examinations from the age of 50. It is scientifically proven that screening colonoscopy is associated with a reduction in incidence and…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer Locoregional therapy of the axilla: current recommendations at a glance Axillary dissection plays an important role in the treatment of breast carcinoma. It is able to reduce the rate of local recurrence and allows accurate staging, but is also associated… CME-Test
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Liquid Biopsy The future of oncological diagnostics With the increasing variety of personalized and immuno-oncological therapeutic options, the importance of predictive markers is also increasing. To date, tissue diagnostics, including invasive biopsy, are necessary to determine this.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated The somewhat different knowledge Who was actually… Moriz Kaposi? When Moriz Kaposi first described Kaposi’s sarcoma in 1872, he probably had no idea that this entity would become much more famous in the context of HIV/AIDS. He was much…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer Metastatic pathways in focus Surgical or radiotherapeutic treatment of regional lymph nodes prolongs breast cancer survival and reduces the likelihood of distant metastasis. However, the effect on regional lymph node recurrence appears to be…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Ovarian cancer and the immune system The choice of chemotherapy is crucial Chemotherapy-induced changes in the immune system can be used therapeutically in the era of immuno-oncology. Accurate characterization of immunologic effects of different agents, in addition to better risk management, will…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Multiple Myeloma A portrait of a multifaceted disease The introduction of new drugs has steadily improved the prognosis of patients with multiple myeloma over the past years. Diagnostics have also been expanded, in particular by cytogenetic analyses, which…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Interview: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. sc. nat. Heinz Läubli Promoting collaboration – at all levels Recently, Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz Läubli, Head Physician for Oncology at the University Hospital Basel, received this year’s Annemarie Karrasch Research Award of the Basel Research Foundation propatient. Läubli’s research…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Aggressive lymphomas Therapy in everyday clinical practice based on current developments Lymphoma accounts for 3.8% of all new cancer diagnoses. According to the current WHO classification, there are over 75 different lymphomentities, which are treated differently. In the treatment of diffuse… CME-Test
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated News from the lung cancer pipeline First targeted substance in KRAS mutation and bispecific immunotherapy While targeted therapies in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have been on the rise for years, such an option for KRAS-mutatedtumors has been lacking. The small molecule inhibitor Sotorasib, which…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Sponsored Content: HRD-positive advanced ovarian cancer. New option in first-line maintenance therapy Ovarian cancer is still the most lethal gynecologic tumor and, especially in advanced stages, the risk of progression remains high even with optimal therapy [1, 2]. Thus, effective treatments that…
