Diagnosis and Treatment

Diagnosis

Cytological diagnostics: microscopic examination of cells from different areas of the body

Immunophenotyping (FACS): test to analyse the presence of different antigens on the surface of cells

Genetic diagnostics from blood, bone marrow and other body fluids

This also includes: diagnostics of the spread of tumours, known as staging, using radiology, nuclear medicine and other medical disciplines.

Treatment

We plan the tumour therapies together with all relevant specialist disciplines in the interdisciplinary tumour conferences of the University Oncology Centre Regensburg (UCC-R)

Systemic tumour therapies are carried out on an outpatient basis in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Drug Tumour Therapy (ICT) or on an inpatient basis. The following treatment is used - individually tailored to each patient:

• Chemotherapies
• Antibody therapies
• Targeted therapies
• Immunotherapies including CAR-T cell therapies
• Hormone therapies

Bone marrow and blood stem cell transplants:

• autologous (using the patient's own stem cells)
• allogeneic (using stem cells from a family or unrelated donor)

Supportive treatment therapies:

• Accompanying therapies for tumour therapy to avoid or reduce side effects
• Blood transfusions and clotting products
• Pain therapies

Support and follow-up care

• Follow-up care for tumour patients
• Arranging accommodation for patients and relatives in the vicinity of the hospital (patients' and relatives' house of the Leukaemia Aid East Bavaria at UKR)
• Presentation to obtain a second opinion