This content is machine translated Malignant melanoma of the skin Current European Guideline at a glance Malignant melanoma of the skin has a high metastatic rate and accounts for more than 90% of all skin cancer-related deaths. Therefore, early detection and best possible treatment is very…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 28th German Skin Cancer Congress 2018, Stuttgart Update on immunotherapy of malignant melanoma Combination immunotherapy, adjuvant immune checkpoint blockade, and long-term survival after PD-1 inhibitor therapy were the topics of two satellite symposia at the German Skin Cancer Congress.
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 2nd EORTC St. Gallen Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference 2014 VEGF inhibition in metastatic colorectal cancer. The use of the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab improves the outcome of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer regardless of the chemotherapy chosen. Recent data suggest that the duration of VEGF inhibition…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Second St. Gallen EORTC Conference Multimodality treatment of advanced rectal cancer. Which drugs are suitable for neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy? If there is a complete clinical response, should we wait or operate? And which patients benefit from adjuvant treatment? These were some of…
