Modern treatments for pancreatic cancer
The European Society for Medical Oncology annually updates its recommendations for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, including stage 4 pancreatic cancer treatment. This is due to the active development of new therapeutic methods for improving the quality of life and longevity of people with this diagnosis. The National Comprehensive...
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Prostate cancer is a disease with a favorable prognosis, if this term can be ascribed to a malignant tumor. Like any cancer, it is characterized by infiltrative growth and metastases. However, the tumor grows slowly and metastasizes later on. Early diagnosis of prostate cancer is difficult to determine due to the lack of symptoms and...
Adaptive Cell Therapy: CAR T-Cell Therapy
In 2017, several large clinical trials were completed for a new cancer treatment technique called CAR T-cell therapy. It resulted in the approval of two drugs: Kymriah and Yescarta. CAR T-cell therapy is simultaneously gene therapy, immunotherapy, and cell therapy. The technique changes the patient's white blood cells in such...
Nanotechnology in cancer treatment
Nanoparticles have unique optical, magnetic, and electrical properties. Cancer scientists successfully use these properties to affect cancer cells, the tumor microenvironment, and antitumor immunity. Nanoparticles help doctors overcome the toxicity of chemotherapy, provide targeted delivery of anticancer drugs to the tumor...
Hyperthermia – effective cancer treatment method in Germany
Germany is one of the most prosperous countries in the field of cancer treatment. German clinics offer the latest methods of fighting malignant neoplasms that are not available in hospitals in other countries yet. One of the actively developing methods is called hyperthermia. High temperatures influence cancer cells during the treatment.
Diagnostics of lung cancer
Lung cancer remains one of the most wide spread malignant oncologic illnesses. Lung cancer is a deadly disease and its poorly responds to treatment. The main problem is that it ’is extremely hard to recognize lung cancer at the early stages. Symptoms appear quite late. Therefore, lung cancer is diagnosed usually...
Immunotherapy for melanoma in Germany
Melanoma immunotherapy is an innovative method of systemic therapy that complements the conventional protocol at all stages of the disease and can significantly increase treatment success rates. In German hospitals, doctors actively use this type of treatment in the early stages of melanoma to prevent a recurrence...
New Alzheimers treatment in Germany: REM (regenerative anti-inflammatory macrophages)
The basis of the development of Alzheimer's disease is a chronic, gradual destruction of the cerebral cortex. Most of all, the areas of the cerebral cortex responsible for the formation of emotions and memory are affected, which causes the following typical symptoms of the disease: forgetfulness, speech disorders, a lack of interest in life...