In Focus
22.05.2013
Caries, periodontitis, cancer
“Please open your mouth!” the dentist says. Their well-trained eye does not only detect caries and periodontitis at the teeth, but also abnormal cell proliferation in the oral cavity and pharynx. And then there is for example this r...
Simple. Ingenious: PDT-plaster
How can we treat white skin cancer in the sensitive area of the face? “Newly, with a plaster”, says Prof. Dr. Uwe Reinhold from Bonn. The first self-adhesive PDT-plaster contains the active agent 5-aminolevulin acid in cryst...
Amsterdam Experiences
Dr. Baris Karakullukcu is an otolaryngologist with further specialization on head and neck oncology and surgery, working at the Netherlands Cancer Institute/ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam. He is working extensively on photodynamic the...
Tongue amputated
Shortly before Christmas 2011, the largest German daily tabloid BILD wrote about popular German actor Claus Biederstaedt (83): "Tongue amputated, cancer cured." An amputation is a high price to pay for a cure. The loss of a part of t...
Vaccine against Cancer?
Oncologist M.D. Winrich Rauschning says on the occasion of the World Cancer Day 2012: “We are on track here: Research in molecular biology reveals the mechanisms of carcinogenesis. That resulted in the idea to influence specific metabolic pr...
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cur...
The Inner Doctor
Many patients are conviced that their healing requires two doctors: The oncologist providing medical competency with certain theurapeutic options - and the inner doctor activating the healing powers of the patient: Faith, will, psyche, power, fitn...
Sigmund Freud
In 1923, the doctors diagnosed cancer in Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the founder of psychoanalysis, a carcinoma in his palatine which made numerous operations necessary in the following years. After having received the diagnosis, the ex...
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Caries, periodontitis, cancer
“Please open your mouth!” the dentist says. Their well-trained eye does not only...
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Simple. Ingenious: PDT-plaster
How can we treat white skin cancer in the sensitive area of the face? “Newly,...
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Amsterdam Experiences
Dr. Baris Karakullukcu is an otolaryngologist with further specialization on head and neck...
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Tongue amputated
Shortly before Christmas 2011, the largest German daily tabloid BILD wrote about popular German...
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Vaccine against Cancer?
Oncologist M.D. Winrich Rauschning says on the occasion of the World Cancer Day 2012: “We...
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The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane...
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The Inner Doctor
Many patients are conviced that their healing requires two doctors: The oncologist providing...
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Sigmund Freud
In 1923, the doctors diagnosed cancer in Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the founder of...
Caution: Human papilloma viruses
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes tumours in the oral cavity –18,000 new cases every year – cancer therapy with PDT successful in the fight against head and neck cancer
The Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is already known as a cause for the development of cervical cancer. Now experts assume that HPV triggers tumours in the oral cavity as well. According to the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, every second case of cancer in the oral pharynx and every fourth tumour in the oral cavity can be traced back to an infection with HPV.