This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Dyspnea – Lung metastases Tumor cells from lung metastases have the typical characteristics of the original type of cancer. Affected patients often have no symptoms at first. As the disease progresses, however, they may...…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Testicular carcinoma Update 2018 Active surveillance is the preferred option postoperatively for stage I seminoma. In contrast, for non-seminoma stage I, adjuvant chemotherapy with one cycle of BEP is recommended (with risk factor of…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Current status of a nearly 70-year therapy Radioiodine therapy in differentiated thyroid carcinoma. For papillary and follicular thyroid carcinomas, ablative radioiodine therapy with TSH stimulation is given four to six weeks after surgery. Studies show that high standard activity (3.7 GBq vs. 1.1…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Esophageal cancer in Switzerland A rare but dangerous tumor In the treatment of esophageal cancer, it is necessary to pay attention to a sufficiently high caloric intake from the first day of treatment. In locally advanced esophageal cancer, neoadjuvant…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Radiological clarification in lung carcinoma When are which instruments used? Many lung cancers are still diagnosed at a late or advanced and thus symptomatic stage. Based on recent study data, various professional societies have made positive recommendations for lung screening,…
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 12 min This content is machine translated Non-small cell lung cancer Individualized, palliative first-line therapy is possible Therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is individualized and based on tumor stage, histology, and predictive molecular markers, taking into account the patient profile. To maximize the therapeutic outcome for…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Suspicion of lung carcinoma Silent preclinical lung findings complicate diagnosis Lung carcinoma usually presents to the general practitioner as advanced disease with mostly nonspecific symptoms: As a silent preclinical lung finding, it must be specifically sought. Knowledge of the clinical…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Bronchus carcinoma Dawn in non-small cell lung cancer? At the beginning of every medical advance is the intention and hope of the researcher to understand a problem in order to then bring it to a solution. Hope is…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated To the point “Watch and Wait? A 30-year-old previously healthy woman suffers from a mild cough for two weeks. New increasingly abdominal pain occurs. During the day she feels feverish. The fever gauge shows 38.4 degrees…
