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Searchresult: Cancer Treatment with Heavy Ions: Knowhow from the German Cancer Research Center Ensures Precision and SafetyCancer Treatment with Heavy Ions: Knowhow from the German Cancer Research Center Ensures Precision and Safety Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 26.10.2009
On November 2, 2009, the Heidelberg Ion Therapy Center (HIT) will be opened. Very soon the first patients with malignant tumors will be treated in the new high-tech facility. Scientists of the German…
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Searchresult: Precision Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Antibody to Detect Enzyme DefectPrecision Diagnosis of Brain Tumors: Antibody to Detect Enzyme Defect Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 19.10.2009
More than 100 different types of brain tumor are known in medicine. Their exact diagnosis is often difficult, because only tiny amounts of tumor tissue are usually available. Scientists of the German…
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Searchresult: Meyenburg Award 2009 for the First Targeted Anti-Cancer DrugMeyenburg Award 2009 for the First Targeted Anti-Cancer Drug Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 12.10.2009
The 2009 Meyenburg Award for Cancer Research with an award sum of 50,000 euros goes to American blood cancer expert, Brian Druker. The Meyenburg Foundation honors Druker as a pioneer of molecularly…
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Searchresult: Cancer Cells Suppress the Body’s Own Defense Mechanisms
Last update: : 08.10.2009
Cancer cells use tricks to evade the immune system. Thus, for example, they attract specific blood cells which suppress the body’s own defense mechanisms. Scientists of the German Cancer Research…
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Searchresult: Young DKFZ Researcher Receives Sponsorship Award by the German Society of Hematology and OncologyYoung DKFZ Researcher Receives Sponsorship Award by the German Society of Hematology and Oncology Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 05.10.2009
Marc Remke, a scientist working at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) in Heidelberg, has been awarded a sponsorship award for doctoral students by the German…
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Searchresult: New issue of einblick released
Last update: : 29.09.2009
Focus: Stem Cells and Cancer
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Searchresult: More Precise Diagnosis, Improved Radiation Therapy: The German Cancer Research Center at the World Congress on Medical PhysicsMore Precise Diagnosis, Improved Radiation Therapy: The German Cancer Research Center at the World Congress on Medical Physics Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 03.09.2009
Physicists, computer scientists, doctors and engineers from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) will present 37 projects from the areas of imaging and radiation…
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Searchresult: DNA Defects and Cancer - Repair or Fatal Damage?
Last update: : 26.08.2009
The DNA, the carrier of hereditary information in our cells, is permanently faced with attacks: by environmental influences such as UV radiation, X-rays and gamma radiation, or by aggressive oxygen…
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Searchresult: Death Receptor Regulates Brain Regeneration
Last update: : 11.08.2009
The so-called death receptor is well known among experts – it induces programmed cell death. In brain stem cells, however, this molecule has an entirely different function, as shown by scientists of…
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Searchresult: Cancer Information has one number: 0800 – 420 30 40
Last update: : 10.08.2009
Until now, there has been no common contact point in Germany for questions of the public regarding cancer. This will change thanks to an alliance between the Cancer Information Service…
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