This content is machine translated Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) 1-year results of the SAPIEN 3 study At EuroPCR, the Congress of Interventional Medicine, held in Paris in May 2015, the latest results of various studies on TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) were presented, among other topics.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Interdisciplinary Symposium Neuro Emergencies Seizure events and confusional states – how to proceed? An afternoon event on “Neuro Emergencies” at the Inselspital in Bern focused, among other things, on the clinical distinction between psychogenic and epileptic seizures. The two types of seizures have…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Cancer Prevention Do statins protect against liver cancer? Several studies have shown that statin therapy reduces the risk of liver cancer. However, most of these papers come from countries with high incidence of liver cancer (Asian region). Now…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Pulse synchronous ear noise Experimental endovascular therapy for pulsatile tinnitus of venous origin. Introduction: In vascular anomalies near the inner ear, some patients perceive pathological blood flow in the form of rhythmic ear noise. This so-called “pulsatile tinnitus” is pulse-synchronous, i.e. it correlates…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Prostate Cancer What is the effect of enzalutamide before chemotherapy? Enzalutamide (Xtandi®) prolongs survival in men whose metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is progressive after chemotherapy. But is the oral androgen receptor pathway inhibitor also effective in patients who have already…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Anemia as a common problem in tumor disease Causes, diagnosis and therapy of anemia in cancer patients Anemia is a common but underestimated and consequently inadequately treated problem in tumor patients. Anemia has a major impact on patients’ quality of life, treatment, and prognosis. Unfortunately, anemia is…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 17th Basel Oncology Talks on Malignant Melanoma Targeted and immunological therapies – what is the current status? This time, a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in the field of targeted and immunological therapeutic approaches for metastatic melanoma was given at the Oncology Talks held…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Concomitant symptoms of cancer therapy What is the risk of xerosis? Many targeted cancer treatments promote the development of dry skin, called xeroderma or xerosis cutis. A meta-analysis now shows how high the incidence and relative risk actually are.
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference Male breast cancer – how do receptor subtypes differ? The IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference was held in Brussels in May. Topics of discussion included the tumor and outcome characteristics of the various molecular subtypes of breast carcinoma in men.…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Lung cancer Living longer thanks to cancer? A current forecast [1] for the year 2015, which is based on statistics from the WHO and data from individual European countries, indicates that theThe picture regarding lung cancer is…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated EHA Congress in Vienna Multiple Myeloma News From June 11 to 14, 2015, the congress of the “European Hematology Association” took place in Vienna. Among many other news, there were of course also updates on multiple myeloma.…
