This content is machine translated Lymphomas What the family doctor needs to know At the SGIM Great Update in Interlaken, the most common problems and challenges that a family physician encounters when dealing with patients suffering from lymphoma were discussed. The only difficulty…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Voice disorders Not always underlying laryngitis – but often Voice disorder is a commonly cited symptom in family practice. In addition to other differential diagnoses, acute laryngitis is a possible cause. Antibiotics are not indicated here, but voice rest…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPLS) Very high cure rates are possible with correct therapy Benign positional vertigo, or somewhat more correctly benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPLS), is the most common cause of dizziness, accounting for 20-30% of all patients who seek medical attention for…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Accounts Receivable Management Minimize bad debt losses It used to be an unwritten law: the family doctor always gets paid first. After all, his achievements were particularly important, he was often something like a trusted family friend…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Proteinuria What clarifications and therapeutic measures are to be taken? Proteinuria must always be taken seriously. Further clarification depends on the clinic, the severity of proteinuria, and whether there is concomitant microhematuria and/or renal insufficiency. If glomerular disease is suspected,…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Lung, kidney cancer and chronic myeloid leukemia What does modern clinical practice look like? At the DGHO Congress in Vienna, various aspects in clinical practice in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), renal cell cancer (RCC) and chronic myeloid leukemia were addressed. In particular, the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Stage 2 analysis of the CLL11 study Is the chlorambucil combination with GA101 superior to that with rituximab? At the ASH Congress in New Orleans, one of the topics was the CLL11 Phase 3 trial. After showing in the last issue of InFo ONCOLOGY & HEMATOLOGY that the…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Pomalidomide in high-risk patients. Because data on the efficacy of pomalidomide in high-risk relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma populations are sparse, a phase II study set out to evaluate the agent in patients with GEP70 or…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Interview at ASCO GI on new data from the OPUS study. “We are a good step closer to personalized therapy in mCRC” In the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer, there were new results on subgroup analyses of the OPUS trial at this year’s ASCO GI in San Francisco. As previously shown in…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Follicular lymphoma Rituximab in maintenance monotherapy. A study presented at ASH 2013 in New Orleans examined the role of rituximab in maintenance therapy in patients with follicular lymphoma. The study showed that the drug, when applied…
