This content is machine translated Palliative care symptom and needs assessment. What screening tools are helpful? In view of the new and mostly well-tolerated therapies, the palliative life and treatment time of oncological patients is increasingly extended. It is a major challenge to identify patients in… CME-Test
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma Successful treatment with immunotherapy Chemotherapy (ChT) has always been the standard of care for the treatment of metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (mMCC), but response rates are often not sustained [1, 2]. Bavencio® (avelumab) is…
View Post 27 min This content is machine translated Uveal melanoma Development of a CAR T-cell therapy for uveal melanoma T cells that are endowed with tumor specificity through the expression of a chimeric antigen recept or (CAR) are becoming increasingly important. They are already increasingly being used in adoptive… CME-Test
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Endometrial Cancer Prolonged progression-free survival through combination therapy Endometrial cancer is the sixth most common cancer in women worldwide and has a poor prognosis, particularly in terms of long-term results. The median overall survival time is less than…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated ASCO GU Symposium 2024 - locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma Strategic therapy sequences to optimize the success of treatment From January 25 – 27, 2024, updated data on first-line maintenance therapy with avelumab (Bavencio®) were presented at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology Genitourinary Cancers (ASCO GU) Symposium…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated AI-based skin cancer diagnostics How do algorithms make complex decisions? Artificial intelligence (AI) can help to detect skin cancer in everyday clinical practice, but one hurdle is that the decisions made by algorithms are often not comprehensible. Scientists at the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Schwartz-Bartter syndrome Disruption of osmoregulation – effectively balancing electrolytes Schwartz-Bartter syndrome is characterized by an accumulation of water in the body, triggered by an increased release of ADH or ADH-like substances. Nausea, vomiting, headaches and muscle cramps can be…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Bladder Cancer Effective treatment even in advanced stages Carcinoma of the urinary bladder is one of the common malignant diseases. While the prognosis of patients with superficial tumors is usually favorable, the situation is much worse for muscle-infiltrating…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Smoking cessation Harmreduction!? An overview of the current situation The damage that smoking and flammable products can cause to health is now well known. Accordingly, efforts have been made for decades to reduce the risks through smoking cessation –…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Hematology MDS and MPN – harmless abbreviations for serious diseases The heterogeneous group of acquired clonal diseases of the hematopoietic stem cells of the bone marrow (myelodysplastic syndromes) are associated with an increased risk of acute myeloid leukemia or bone…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer HER2-negative breast cancer in a pot with triple-negative tumors? One study suggests that patients with low HR-positive/HER2-negative tumors could be considered and treated similarly to patients with triple-negative tumors. Should the current definitions of HR positivity and their clinical…
