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Breast-Cancer-Vaccination Helps with Survival!
Vaccination against the tumor feature HER2/neu could improve the survival rate of patients with breast cancer, according to the preliminary conclusion of a study conducted by Linda Benavides and their employees from San Antonio, Texas. The American scientist now presented the results of their studies with the experimental vaccine NeuVax (E75), in which a total of 163 patients participated, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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ASH-Meeting 2007 in Atlanta
Every year the American Society of Hematology (ASH) invites to their meeting that lasts several days. This month I had the opportunity to attend to this biggest meeting for hematology/oncology worldwide. The Event took place in Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. read more »
First script submitted to the DGCH
I’ll be speaking at the annual meeting of the german surgical society (DGCH) which takes place in munich from April, 5 to April, 8. During the “surgical forum” i will be giving a lecture about the role of notch-signalling for the neurovascular developement in pancreas carcinomas. the script will then be published to the surgical DGCH-yearbook, which, unfortunately, isn’t citated by medline.
My Travel Forth & Back
At 9:30am this morning my excursion to the body-worlds began. but first i had to pick up a friend of mine and we had a quick breakfast at his place. the drive to Frankfurt-Fechenheim was no deal but finding the event-hall in midst of an industrial park took us quite long. there were buses filled with crowds of highscool students awaiting us.. as if they had nothing better to do at 11 o’clock! even so it was not necessary to stand in line at the cash box (in mannheim visitors often had to wait 4h to get in!) … the admission charge was 9 Euro (reduced prize), catalogues and wireless info phones not included. read more »
Körperwelten (Body Worlds)
The notorious anatomical exhibition body worlds is back in germany again. it is supposed to have completely new and unseen preparations. back in the 90ies i have visited the showroom in mannheim and was quite impressed. read more »
