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  • 5 demonstrative operations were conducted as part of the International Master-Class

    11.12.2019 06:46:11


    At the end of last week, the Regional Cancer Center hosted colleagues from abroad who came to Irkutsk to participate in the 3rd International Workshop “Innovations in Oncology: esophagus and lung cancer surgery”.


    This event was held as part of the International Transfer Center of the Innovative Medical Technologies. Among the participants of the master-class was a large group of German oncologists: representatives of the thoracic clinic of the University of Heidelberg (one of the oldest thoracic clinics in Germany and Europe, with more than 100 years of history, where about 2,300 operations are performed annually, today they practice all the most modern diagnostic methods and cancer treatment) and the Helios clinics (the largest clinical network in Germany and Europe, best known for its oncological line of business).


    During the workshop, five operations were performed in patients with tumors of the lungs and esophagus. One of the patients had an early stage of tracheal cancer. Surgery was performed together with Peter Reimer, MD, senior doctor of the Thoracic Clinic of the University of Heidelberg. It was an organ-preserving or, as they are also called, hybrid operation, in which only the tumor was removed - the trachea itself remained in the body and will continue to serves its owner.


    “We also carry out such operations, but it is always important to know how our foreign colleagues do them,” says Pavel Ulybin, head of the thoracic department of the Regional Cancer Center. “Previously, in such cases, large operations were performed, although they crippled patients. But the surgery does not stand still, and we constantly adopt new methods, including minimally invasive techniques.”


    In other operating rooms, lung neoplasms were removed.


    “The methods demonstrated today, are used both in Germany and in Russia, help to remove the affected tissues from the patient’s body as much as possible, and then connect those parts of the lung that remain after the tumor removal,” explains the director of the thoracic clinic of the University of Heidelberg, professor, MD Hauke Winter.


    Of course, in advanced cancer cases, you have to remove the entire lung, thus, various complications may occur.



    “This is our today's task: to find out how our German colleagues perform such operations, since their patients have fewer complications,” says Victoria Dvornichenko, MD, head physician of the Regional Cancer Center.


    In fact, it was for this reason, that the International Transfer Center of the Innovative Medical Technologies was created: to give doctors from different countries the opportunity to exchange experience in solving the same problems. Thus, the treatment methods already applied can be supplemented by new features that allow to perform operations more efficiently, preserving patients’ quality of life to the utmost.








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