This content is machine translated Body mass index and cancer Is the world getting fatter and sicker? The fact that overweight and obesity represent a serious health problem in many Western industrialized nations is probably widely known. But is an elevated BMI even associated with the risk…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Surgical therapy of pancreatic carcinoma Extended resections – vessels, neighboring organs, recurrences The only chance of long-term survival in pancreatic cancer is radical resection (R0) with adjuvant chemotherapy. To achieve radical resection, extended surgery with resection of the venous porto-mesenteric vessels as…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Current therapy 2014 Surgical update on colon and rectal cancer. In the case of colorectal carcinoma, surgery is still the only way to cure the disease. Primary therapy of colon carcinoma consists of oncologic resection of the tumor-bearing bowel segment.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Surgical update - colorectal and pancreatic cancers. What’s new? This current issue of InFo ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY focuses on surgery for two important tumor entities: colorectal carcinoma and pancreatic carcinoma.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Smoking cessation A difficult task for those affected Tobacco consumption in Switzerland remains high: according to an estimate based on the CoRolAR survey, more than a quarter of the Swiss population aged 15 and over smokes. How can…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary care for skin cancer patients New drugs for the clinician What’s new in skin cancer therapy? An educational session at UniversitySpital Zurich focused on the options available to patients from improved immunotherapy and targeted treatments with BRAF and MEK inhibitors…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated 4th Zurich Dermatology Training Days Regional dermatoses under the microscope At the Dermatological Training Days in Zurich, various regional dermatoses were presented on the basis of case histories: How do dermatoses of the ear, diseases of the mucous membranes and…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Comparison between bevacizumab and cetuximab in KRAS exon2 wild type. According to preliminary results of a large phase III trial presented at this year’s ASCO congress, bevacizumab and cetuximab (combined with FOLFOX or FOLFIRI) show similar efficacy in terms of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Immuno-Oncology New pathways for improved cancer treatment? Long-term survival of patients with advanced-stage carcinoma is still an area where research is far from successful. In the field of melanoma, the approval of ipilimumab in 2011 has made…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Hype or hope? Metformin, vitamin D and aspirin as anticancer agents Time and again, various substances are praised as “anticancer agents,” both in scientific circles and in the lay press. A symposium at this year’s ASCO Congress in Chicago was dedicated…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Myeloproliferative neoplasms News from a field that is developing rapidly Classic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) include polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and primary myelofibrosis. Several sessions at the EHA Congress in mid-June addressed the revision in the guidelines, news on JAK inhibition,…
