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The eternal fight against Breast Cancer

The current situation Due to great progress regarding early cancer diagnosis, diagnostics, therapy and care in the last decades, the survival rate and quality of life of patients suffering from breast cancer increased significantly in

Multiresistant Bacteria

The Problem Regular clinical tests demonstrate a serious and growing threat today: resistant bacteria showing immunity against many common antibiotics. The evolution and widespread distribution of antibiotic resistanct pathogens has made diseases that were once

For the research of DIPG across 14 countries

DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma) describes a brain tumor in children for which there exists no cure or positive life-changing treatment. Even if this type of pontine glioma can be classified as “rare diseases”, it

Personalized Medicine – Therapy 2.0

Principles The official journal of the European Union referring to Personalized Medicine for Patients (2015/C 421/03) says: ”[…] that there is no generally accepted definition of the term `Personalized Medicine`. In general Personalized Medicine describes

Renal cell carcinoma – a rare disease in Germany

  Because of the World-Kidney-Day on March 14, there is a new post about another rare disease in Germany. The renal cell carcinoma is the most common form of kidney cancer and appears mainly among

DIPG – Fight for a cure!

Hardly anyone has ever heard of DIPG. This abbreviation stands for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma and describes a childhood brain tumor. There’s no cure or positive life-changing treatment at the moment. Not much has happend

Rare diseases

This blog post answers the questions of what rare diseases are in general, in which medical areas they’re involved, how many people are affected and the number of medications, which are available now. Definition and

Epilepsy – chaos inside the head

Although the European epilepsy day has been over for a few days, it’s still important to understand this neurological disease. Therefore, this blog post discusses the defintion of epilepsy, the development, consequences and causes of

World Cancer Day: What is cancer actually?

On February 4th was World Cancer Day. That’s why the current blog post answers the question of what cancer actually is and how it develops. History Cancer was already described by the ancient Egyptians in