Medical Blog About Treatment Abroad

Although medical research is advancing in leaps and bounds, cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death. Nearly a third of all people die from heart pathologies. However, with early detection and effective treatment, life expectancy can be increased by many years. German hospitals offer the best medical services.

In 2022, Europe broke the record of ovarian cancer incidence and mortality – the highest rates among all other countries in the world. Breast cancer among European women is also on the third place in the world in terms of incidence. This may be one of the reasons why German oncologists strive to gain expertise...

Standard therapy for glioblastoma is the combination of surgical removal of the tumor, chemo- or radiation therapy. Average life expectancy after diagnosis with standard treatment of glioblastoma is 15-17 months, and the 5-year survival rate does not exceed 5-10%. Today, supplementing the standard treatment protocol with innovative...

ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) is a pathology that causes the death of motor neurons. Although ALS is often considered to be a muscular disease, it is actually not. In fact, this is a neurological disease. Only recently scientists began to understand how ALS develops. Since the causes...

Pancreatic cancer (PC) remains one of the most aggressive forms of gastrointestinal carcinomas. Just imagine that in 2022, approximately 467,000 deaths were attributed to this disease; that places PC among the top six causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide.The overall 5-year survival rate sits around 13%. That is a horrific statistic. For localized...

Because the decision of where to treat breast cancer has never carried more weight, patients today are navigating a disease whose global scale is still expanding. In 2022, 2.3 million new diagnoses were recorded and nearly 670,000 lives were lost — numbers that the World Health Organization...

Visual information undergoes complex processing before it can turn into a clear picture. The optic nerve is largely responsible for this process. Unfortunately, it can atrophy due to various pathological processes. Currently, there are no treatments in medicine that would completely cure degenerative diseases of the optic nerve.

Brain cancer refers to a range of tumors originating in the brain. As the evidence suggests, the most aggressive and prevalent malignant form in adults is glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). In fact, recent data reports that this tumor accounts for ~14% of all primary brain tumors. When taking a look at global statistics...