Diagnosis & treatment - page 24

According to the WHO statistics, brain cancer counts only for 3% of all cancer cases. Nevertheless, this life-threatening condition requires maximal efforts, great competence, and the collective work of healthcare professionals. Fortunately, modern medicine offers a great variety of treatment options for patients with brain cancer.

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic recurrent disease associated with inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands. The inflammatory process primarily affects hair follicles and then spreads to the apocrine glands. The disease poorly responds to treatment. Hidradenitis suppurativa has a high prevalence affecting 1-4% of the...

Many diseases, even with a timely and high quality treatment, are still accompanied by side effects. These can be movement disorders, loss of coordination, speech and mental disorders, deterioration of appearance, and many other residual effects. Rehabilitative measures are used to eliminate, reduce, or compensate them.

According to the World Cancer Research Fund, kidney cancer was ranked 9th among the most common oncological pathologies in the world in 2018. Most tumors develop from the renal tubules, which actively filter up to 2000 liters of blood per day. As a result, kidney cancer is mostly diagnosed at an early stage, before metastasizing.

Many pediatric diseases are characterized by severe complications and require highly qualified, high-tech medical care. Faced with the problem, parents spare no time, money, or effort for their child. Therefore, to treat pediatric diseases, it comes as no surprise when German hospitals are found to be at the top of the search list for many...

Immune system is one of the most complicated and poorly studied among other system  of the human body. Nonetheless, German doctors learned how to detect and treat many diseases of immune  system. Immune status can be  checked with the laboratory methods. Immune status of a person  represents  functional and...

Many people are convinced that cancer is a fatal diagnosis, although many cancer forms can be successfully treated. After learning about cancer, some people choose to go abroad for treatment, where at least 95% of all cancer patients can successfully get rid of the disease. However, the COVID pandemic has turned millions of lives...

Robot-assisted procedures have been used in medical practice for over 30 years. Most often, doctors perform a prostate removal (prostatectomy) with the help of the da Vinci robotic system. The second place in terms of the number of surgeries performed is taken by the removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) and other types of urogynecologic...