This content is machine translated Nasopharyngeal carcinoma Make the tumor shine?! Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a rather rare tumor entity in Europe, which is often only detected at an advanced stage. With combined radiochemotherapy, the chances of cure are good in non-metastatic…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Esophageal Cancer Place of radio(chemo)therapy in the multimodality setting. Esophageal cancer is a complex clinical picture. Interdisciplinary consultation and care of the patient are therefore useful. What is the place of radiotherapy or radiochemotherapy in multimodality treatment?
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated System therapy in gastric carcinoma Goals of drug treatment Surgery is the first choice for localized gastric carcinoma. Systems therapy peri- or postoperatively can improve cure rates. Palliative, it prolongs survival and improves quality of life. Recognize languageAfrikaansAlbanianArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBengaliBosnianBulgarianBurmeseCebuanoChichewaChinese (ver)Chinese…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Radiochemotherapy Can the effectiveness of radiotherapy be increased with drugs? Combined radiochemotherapy with classical cytotoxics and specific inhibitors of molecular targets increases the therapeutic breadth and is part of clinical routine in many tumor entities. Classical cytotoxics quantitatively and qualitatively…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference, St. Gallen Pancreatic cancer: without surgery, patients have little chance of survival The second day of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference in St. Gallen focused on pancreatic cancer. In terms of its incidence, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. While the prognosis…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Oral cavity carcinoma Histopathological parameters are important prognostic factors Important risk factors for oral cavity carcinomas in our latitudes are tobacco and alcohol use, chronic infection with high-risk HPV, immunosuppression, and previous tumors in the head and neck region.…
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…
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…
