Skin cancer treatment

Every year over 250,000 people in Germany are diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer or melanoma. Whilst non-melanoma skin cancer can usually be treated well or even completely cured, the progress of advanced melanoma can be very aggressive. The number of cases has rapidly increased in the last 20 years and continues to rise. All stages of the disease can be treated, however an early diagnosis is critical.

As a practice we hold additional qualifications in “medicinal tumour therapy” and are part of a special oncological programme. Dr. Ludolph-Hauser is a member of the Dermatological Oncology Working Group and is active in onkoderm. This nationwide network of active dermatological oncologists is committed to achieving the best quality of treatment. We cooperate with Landshut’s oncological and palliative medicine network. This enables us to treat our patients comprehensively and in a timely fashion.

Advances in the treatment of skin cancer

Thanks to considerable advances within genetic research, today scientists understand the changes that cause a cell to become a cancer cell far better. The research findings have led to the development of new drugs that destroy cancer cells based on their particular mutations.

Until recently it was difficult to have any impact on an advanced melanoma. Now, however, even metastatic melanomas can be melted away; it is thus possible to considerably extend life expectancy. With another treatment approach, the specific stimulation of the body’s own immune system mobilises immune cells that are able to destroy tumour cells. In both cases significantly better results are being achieved than with previous treatment methods.

There has also been an advance in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of non-melanoma skin cancer: a so-called hedgehog inhibitor stops the growth of oversized tumours in a targeted way so that it will subsequently be possible to operate.

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