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Stroke: treatment, care and rehabilitation

The Zurich Stroke Center offers round-the-clock emergency and acute treatment for strokes. During the critical phase, the team cares for patients on a highly specialized monitoring ward. Possible c...

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Stroke: Physiotherapy and occupational therapy treatment

Depending on which areas are cut off from the blood supply, different functional disorders occur. Hemiplegia and hemiparesis are typical. Most of the recovery from neurological deficits occurs in t...

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Lymphomas

Lymphocytes, which belong to the white blood cells, normally fight off pathogens. In the lymphatic system, they travel through the entire body to fight viruses and bacteria. In the case of lymphoma...

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Lymphoma treatment

Lymphomas and myelomas are malignant diseases that originate in the lymphatic system, a part of the immune system. Many different types of these diseases with different clinical courses are known t...

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Rectus diastasis therapy

Rectus diastasis often occurs during pregnancy and does not require treatment per se. It often occurs at the same time as an umbilical hernia, but is not a hernia itself.

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Melanoma (black skin cancer) Therapy

Treatment depends primarily on the depth of penetration of the melanoma.

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Melanoma Radiotherapy

Radiation therapy (also known as radiotherapy) is used for skin cancer in the various stages of the disease, either as the sole therapy or together with surgery and system therapy/immunotherapy/tar...

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When the skin constantly itches

Neurodermatitis is one of the most common chronic diseases in children. But many adults are also affected. The disease is not curable. But there are many ways to live well with it. And it is not un...

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Prostate cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy (also known as radiotherapy) is used for prostate cancer in the various stages of the disease in order to achieve a cure for the disease (curative radiotherapy), either alone or togeth...

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Prostate cancer therapy

At the Prostate Cancer Center, we offer a comprehensive range of services for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care of prostate cancer.

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HIFU therapy for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide, but it can be treated very successfully. With surgical removal of the prostate as a treatment option, however, there is a risk ...

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“I knew I was in good hands.”

December 21 is my second birthday. On this day, my aortic aneurysm was operated on at the USZ.

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Prostate Biopsy – MRI Template Biopsy

The latest magnetic resonance imaging technology combined with ultrasound images of the prostate enables a fusion-supported template biopsy of the prostate.

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Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

The Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University Hospital Zurich is responsible for patient care, research and teaching.

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Rare disease: living despite suffering

Markus Vorburger (58) has a rare, genetic disease called neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2-associated schwannomatosis). This impairs his hearing and sense of balance. Thanks to the right therapy and su...

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Itching, all the time

Inflammatory skin diseases are very common. Neurodermatitis is particularly common and at the same time particularly unpleasant. Much is still unclear about this complex disease.

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#SOLAgegenKrebs 2024

Über 80 Mitarbeitende des Comprehensive Cancer Center Zürich (CCCZ) laufen am 4.5.2024 an der SOLA Stafette gegen Krebs. Unterstützen und motivieren Sie unsere CCCZ Laufteams mit einer Spende.

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Congratulations to Dr. Stefanie Kreutmair

Congratulations to Stefanie Kreutmair for being selected for the EHA-ASH TRTH (Translational Research Training in Hematology) program in 2024 and for receiving a FAN Academic Excellence Fellowship.

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E-bike accidents: injuries are more serious than in bicycle accidents

A study at the USZ compared the head injury patterns of e-bike accident victims with those of motorcycle and bicycle accidents. Head injuries after crashes with e-bikes are often more serious than ...

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Neurodermatitis

In the case of neurodermatitis (also called atopic dermatitis), sufferers experience severe itching of the skin, whose condition is dry and scaly. Atopic dermatitis is bothersome but not contagious...

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Prostate cancer

A prostate tumor (prostate carcinoma) is a malignant tumor of the prostate gland. This gland, which is about the size of a chestnut, is called the prostate. It is located below the bladder and surr...

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Genetic counseling in familial breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC syndrome)

The risk of a woman developing breast cancer in the course of her life is 12-13%. For ovarian cancer, this is significantly lower at around 1%. If there is a cluster of breast and ovarian cancer ca...

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Skin cancer

The term skin cancer refers to various malignant skin tumors. The most common is white skin cancer, which includes basal cell carcinoma and spinal cell carcinoma. Black skin cancer (malignant melan...