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Last update: : 05.12.2014
Today most cases of childhood cancer can be cured. However, in about 20 percent of cases children suffer a recurrence of the cancer following therapy and they ultimately succumb to the disease. With…
Press releaseLast update: : 03.12.2014
E-cigarettes are no longer a marginal phenomenon in Germany. They are being sold and advertised in this country on the internet, at gas stations and kiosks, and in supermarkets, like cigarettes made…
Press releaseLast update: : 27.11.2014
In a study called CONCORD-2, around 500 international scientists report on 5-year survival rates for about 25.7 million adult cancer patients suffering from one of the ten most common types of cancer…
Press releaseLast update: : 14.11.2014
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have found out that natural killer cells need at least two separate signals in order to be able to fight cytomegaloviruses. This finding might…
Press releaseLast update: : 04.11.2014
Joint press release of the German Cancer Research Center and the University of Heidelberg For the second time in a row, a student team from Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research…
Press releaseLast update: : 04.11.2014
Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have evaluated data from the first ten years of endoscopic gastrointestinal cancer screening (colonoscopy). The study concludes that the…
Press releaseLast update: : 20.10.2014
The Senate of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers has unanimously elected Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Otmar D. Wiestler, Chairman of the Management Board and Scientific Director of the German…
Press releaseLast update: : 20.10.2014
Almost everybody in Germany knows what e-cigarettes are, and almost 10 percent of 16-to-19-year-olds have tried them – about the same rate as tobacco smokers in this age group. Interest in…
Press releaseLast update: : 16.10.2014
On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, about 500 employees of the DKFZ in Heidelberg celebrated "their" Nobel Prize winner, Professor Stefan Hell. In attendance were Theresia Bauer, the Minister of Science,…
Press releaseLast update: : 09.10.2014
Every new anticancer drug can improve patients’ chances of survival. In some cases, however, these drugs can cause severe adverse side effects through mechanisms that are often unclear. An…
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