This content is machine translated Side effect profile of new oncological therapies Skin toxicity and alopecia Oncological therapies are undergoing rapid development, resulting in the availability of a large number of new substances that need to be characterized not only in terms of their potential uses…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated DGHO Congress, Leipzig New treatment options for renal cell carcinoma and multiple myeloma Guidelines are intended to help introduce uniform standards with recommendations based on evidence-based data for diagnostics, therapy and follow-up care. At the annual meeting of the German, Austrian, and Swiss…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated CDK4/6 inhibitors New class of drugs for breast cancer Adding the CDK4/6 inhibitor ribociclib to letrozole improved progression-free survival in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive advanced breast cancer, researchers reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen.
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Radiochemotherapy Can the effectiveness of radiotherapy be increased with drugs? Combined radiochemotherapy with classical cytotoxics and specific inhibitors of molecular targets increases the therapeutic breadth and is part of clinical routine in many tumor entities. Classical cytotoxics quantitatively and qualitatively…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 25th EADV Congress in Vienna Progress in melanoma treatment: more success with combination therapies Just a few years ago, metastatic melanoma was rapidly fatal – but today the disease responds frequently and long-term to new drug therapies. Experts reported on advances in melanoma therapy…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Neoplastic diseases Treatment and prognosis of cutaneous lymphoma Cutaneous lymphomas are a heterogeneous group of neoplastic diseases arising from clonal proliferation of lymphocytes in the skin. Overall, cutaneous lymphomas are rare skin cancers, with a prevalence of 1:100,000…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dermatology training week in Munich There will be no change in skin cancer screening in Germany In Germany, the number of skin cancer cases has been increasing for many years. The incidence is currently over 200,000 per year, including approximately 20,000 malignant melanomas. The number of…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Often recognized and treated too late Acute porphyrias – update on diagnosis and therapy Porphyrias are a group of very rare, genetically determined metabolic diseases with a disorder of heme biosynthesis. The typical symptom triad in a relapse consists of abdominal pain, cerebral symptoms,…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated HIV and cancer Why do some tumors occur more frequently under HAART? The incidence of white skin cancer is three to five times higher in HIV-infected individuals. Squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas occur at younger ages in HIV-infected individuals, are more…
View Post 15 min This content is machine translated Focus - Skin Cancer Malignant Melanoma, Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy – The Road to Success Thanks to the approval of new therapeutic approaches, the treatment of advanced melanoma has been further developed in recent years. Patients with metastatic melanoma who undergo immunotherapy and/or targeted therapy…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer and alcohol Direct correlation for tumor localizations Evidence on the causal role of alcohol in cancer is mounting, with new studies providing further data corroborating the epidemiological evidence. In the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at…
