Liver cancer: Description Liver cancer is a malignant tumor disease of the liver. This organ fulfills many tasks in the body: The liver utilizes the nutrients absorbed from the intestine. For example, it stores excess sugar (glucose) in the form of glycogen. Certain vitamins and iron are also stored in the liver when the body … Testicular cancer: risk factors, diagnosis, treatment
Music therapy uses the healing effects of music to alleviate and heal a wide variety of ailments, both physical and psychological. It is a practice-oriented scientific discipline in any form of music therapy. What is music therapy? With the purposeful use of music, whether instrumental, vocal, or other forms of musical performance, the goal is … Music Therapy: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Oncology refers to the scientific and medical discipline that deals with tumor diseases, i.e. cancer. It involves both basic research and the clinical subfields of prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of cancer. What is oncology? Oncology refers to the scientific and medical specialty that deals with tumor diseases, or cancer. Oncology is the … Oncology: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) as a noninvasive imaging method is mainly used in medicine. Here, the different reflection and scattering properties of different tissues form the basis of this method. As a relatively new method, OCT is currently establishing itself in more and more fields of application. What is optical coherence tomography? In the field … Optical Coherence Tomography: Treatment, Effects & Risks
Insulinoma is the most common hormone-producing tumor of the pancreas. It often produces not only insulin, as its name suggests, but also other hormones. In 90% of the cases it is a benign tumor. The most important symptom of insulinoma is the so-called hypoglycemia (“hypoglycemia”). These occur particularly after physical exertion or in the morning … Insulinoma
Forecast With correct therapy, the average mortality rate is only 1-5%, but if therapy is started too late or is omitted, it increases up to 60%. Already weakened people with a reduced state of health are considered to be particularly at risk. Although cholera is a serious life-threatening disease in itself, if it is detected … Forecast | Cholera
Biliary diarrhoea (Greek)Cholera is a severe infectious disease, which mainly causes severe diarrhoea. The disease is triggered by Vibrio cholerae, a gram-negative bacterium that can be transmitted to humans via contaminated drinking water or food. Cholera occurs mainly in countries with inadequate hygienic conditions, especially where food, drinking water and personal hygiene are not guaranteed. … Cholera
General information There are numerous different cytostatic drugs that have their point of attack at different points in a tumour cell. The cytostatic drugs are divided into groups according to their respective mechanisms of action. The most important cytostatic drug groups are listed below. However, in view of the abundance of terms, brand names and … Substances used in chemotherapy
Antibodies This way of fighting tumours is relatively new. First of all, an explanation of what an antibody actually is: It is a protein that plays a major role in the immune defence. An antibody specifically recognizes a foreign structure, an antigen, binds it and thus leads to its destruction. The special thing about an … Antibodies | Substances used in chemotherapy
Synonyms in the broadest sense Radiation therapy, tumour therapy, breast cancer Chemotherapy is the drug treatment of a cancerous disease (tumour disease) that affects the entire body (systemic effect). The drugs used are so-called cytostatics (Greek from cyto= cell and static= stop), which aim to destroy or, if this is no longer possible, to reduce … Chemotherapy
Since cytostatic drugs are (cell-)toxic drugs that effectively damage the tumour, but at the same time affect healthy cells during chemotherapy, they must be given time to recover. That is why chemotherapy is not given every day like many other drugs, but in so-called cycles. This means that cytostatic drugs are given at certain intervals, … Implementation of chemotherapy
Whipple’s disease is a very rare disease of the intestine, which often manifests itself as diarrhea, weight loss and joint inflammation. The disease occurs very rarely, but at any age. Cause Probably a certain bacterium called “Tropheryma whippelii” is responsible for this, but it is found everywhere and its transmission route is not yet known. … Whipple’s disease
