Marking small intra-abdominal lesions of difficult access with iodine seeds helps guide doctors and facilitates their removal Published on 25/02/2019
Vaporized chemotherapy administered intraperitoneally offers hopeful results in patients with metastases in the area Published on 11/02/2019 The administration of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) offers new treatment options for patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis, that is, with metastases in the peritoneum, who are not candidates for curative surgical treatment. "Intravenous systemic chemotherapy is the standard treatment in patients with advanced cancer which cannot be completely removed due to the great volume of the disease," says Dr. Gloria Ortega, of the Surgical Oncology Service of MD Anderson Madrid – Hospiten. "The problem is that patients in treatment with systemic chemotherapy begin to have numerous complications derived from the treatment," specialist goes on, who points out that PIPAC is treatment that, while used in combination with systemic chemotherapy, "allows the disease to be controlled with fewer adverse effects".
The opinion of surgical oncology, vital to the multidisciplinary committees that determine the best treatment plan for a cancer patient Published on 04/02/2019
A new surgical technique allows better visualization and more precise resection of rectal tumors near the anus Published on 23/01/2019 Total mesorectal excision, that is, the removal of the rectum and surrounding fat and lymph nodes, is the standard treatment for rectal cancer - an effective approach that can be performed by laparotomy (open surgery), laparoscopy or robot-assisted surgery. The problem with this approach is "the lack of clear vision of the most distal part of the rectum, which makes complete resection of the tumor difficult", explains Dr. Oscar Alonso, a specialist in gastrointestinal surgical oncology at MD Anderson Madrid – Hospiten. Therefore, the closer the tumor is to the anus, the more difficult it is to see and more likely the resection is to be incomplete and with tumor recurrence.
Hyaluronic acid, effective in the treatment of vaginal or genital atrophy caused by cancer therapy Published on 11/12/2018 As cancer survival rates increase, so do the numbers of consultations about the side effects of cancer treatments, many of which greatly affect a patient’s quality of life. Gynecol...
CT or ultrasound-guided bone and / or soft tissue biopsy increases accuracy in the diagnosis of sarcoma and reduces hospital admissions Published on 07/12/2018 ...
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid – Hospiten and emov join forces to build awareness among the public in Madrid of the effects of airborne pollution on the health Published on 15/11/2018 Published November 15 2018
Vacuum-assisted biopsies allow benign or pre-malignant breast lesions to be removed in minutes Published on 18/10/2018 In this sense, techniques like vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) mean that patients with benign lesions or lesions suspected of being or that may turn into breast cancer can undergo a v...
“A journey through breast cancer”, a meeting set up by and for breast cancer patients Published on 17/10/2018 For the 9th year, the conference “A journey through breast cancer” was held in Madrid – a meeting aimed at sharing experiences in breast cancer with specialists from different fiel...
The president of MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Dr. Peter WT Pisters visits MD Anderson Madrid – Hospiten Published on 09/10/2018 On the occasion of the II Meeting "Advances in the Diagnosis of Molecular Pathology", which took place between Wednesday 3 and Friday 5 October in Madrid and brought together profe...