This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer CheckMate 057 with promising results Patients with advanced non-squamous type non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) benefit from nivolumab after failed platinum-containing chemotherapy. This is the conclusion of the CheckMate 057 study. The tested substance was…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Venous thromboembolism Do patients with pancreatic cancer benefit from prophylaxis? Advanced pancreatic cancer is associated with a significantly increased risk of venous thromboembolism: within one year, approximately one fifth of patients suffer such a complication – with devastating consequences. What…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Laboratory medicine - prenatal medicine New promising methods of prenatal diagnostics Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) provides a new reliable method for early detection of the most common aneuploidies. The sensitivity and specificity of NIPT for the detection of fetal trisomy 21…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Breast cancer in the family Is the prognosis worsening? Family history is not an independent risk factor for worse outcome in young women with breast cancer. This is the result of a British study in which the data of…
View Post 3 min 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…
