This content is machine translated Tumor breakthrough pain Quick help for a troublesome side effect Hardly any patients report it, but many suffer from it: Tumor breakthrough pain. The sudden attacks of pain are a psychological and physical burden for those affected, which severely restricts…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Palliative sedation in the pulmonary clinic. Alleviating “unbearable suffering”. The treatment of patients in pulmonary clinics can include not only diagnostics and therapy, but also assistance in dying. In addition to lung cancer, COPD and pulmonary fibrosis are the…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Young cancer patients Intensive treatment until death A cross-sectional study from California shows: Young patients with cancer receive very intensive medical care (chemotherapy, hospitalizations, emergency room or intensive care unit admissions) in the last months and even…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated 1st Swiss Symposium Peritoneal Malignancies and HIPEC Enabling individualized treatment At the first Swiss symposium on peritoneal malignancies and HIPEC in St. Gallen, experts spoke on the topics of ovarian cancer and metastatic colorectal cancer. It was about current and…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Highlights of the symposium at the Inselspital Bern How to respond to cervical cancer in pregnancy? The twelfth annual symposium of the Breast and Tumor Center at the Inselspital Bern, which was held at the end of December 2013, focused this time on cervical carcinoma. What…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer. Slow but steady progress Epithelial ovarian carcinoma is a heterogeneous group of carcinomas that have different etiology, genetics, and thus biological prognosis. In advanced stages (IIB-IV), the standard therapy remains maximal cytoreductive therapy, weighing…
