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...
Survival for breast cancer
Breast cancer is a disease that can lead to fatality. However, it can be fatal only if it has not been treated on time. In recent years, doctors have learned how to manage this pathology. There is a high survival rate of of patients. Many effective methods of breast cancer treatment have been developed over the years: surgeries...
Life expectancy of patients with bowel cancer
Bowel cancer prognosis is different for each patient. But, at the same time, it’s connected with the key factors: stage of disease at the moment of its diagnosis, tumor type and location, presence of the concomitant diseases, methods of treatment. World statistic data are constantly being updated and gives a chance to presuppose how...