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.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Early detection and early treatment of psychosis Phase-specific intervention as early as possible is critical The goals of early detection include preventing or delaying the transition to manifest disease and reducing preexisting symptoms or daily impairments. A risk for psychosis includes at least one attenuated…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated New study on combined immunotherapy in melanoma Combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab is superior to monotherapy Melanomas account for less than 5% of all skin cancers, but they claim the most lives. How to optimize the therapy? The CheckMate-069 trial, published in the New England Journal…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Treatment of brain metastases Surgery, radiosurgery, or conventional radiotherapy? Brain metastases are a local problem that can often be addressed well with local therapy. Because of the risk of intraoperative tumor seeding, surgical resection must be supplemented with conventional…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Challenges in the care of patients with ADHD ADHD in adults and preschool children At the congress of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy in Munich, ADHD was also a topic. To what extent are the guidelines accepted by…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Breast Cancer EPIC study – a tumor rarely comes alone For eleven years, scientists had followed a large cohort of breast cancer patients from the so-called EPIC study (European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer And Nutrition). The aim was to determine…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Congress of the American Academy of Dermatology Acne and atopic dermatitis – ways of therapy Two studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in San Francisco were devoted to acne therapy. Both tested a fixed combination of adapalene and benzoyl…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Polypharmacy in geriatric patients Risks and practical aspects of handling multiple medications Polypharmacy is a rapidly growing problem. It mainly affects geriatric patients. Multimorbidity is the most important cause. The dangers are adverse drug reactions, which not infrequently lead to emergency hospitalizations,…
