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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...

Sarcoma represents a group of malignant tumors that develop in soft and hard connective tissues, characterized by aggressive spread and early metastasis. Following the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of dendritic cells, sarcoma cancer treatment in Germany has achieved the highest European survival rates by combining traditional...

Today, one of the main goals of medical research is the development of effective methods for cancer treatment. The introduction of innovative approaches to cancer treatment is conducted  at specialized clinics in the country with a high level of healthcare. Germany is considered one of the most developed countries...