Gastrointestinal oncology
Treatment methods
As your treating specialist department, we offer you the following therapies in cooperation with other medical departments within the University Cancer Centre Regensburg network:
- Drug therapy (cytostatics, monoclonal antibodies and antibody conjugates, targeted therapies, immunotherapy)
- Supportive treatment (nutritional counselling, management of complications of tumour disease, psycho-oncological therapy, physiotherapy, palliative medicine, social counselling)
- Endoscopic therapy for gastrointestinal tumours and early-stage cancers (including intraductal RFA, ESD, EMR, stent implantation, PEG/PEJ)
- Transarterial chemoembolisation of the liver (TACE)
- Local ablative procedures: radio frequency ablation (RFA)
- Irreversible electroporation (IRE)
- Nuclear medicine procedures: Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), peptide receptor radiation therapy (PRRT) with Lu-177-labelled somatostatin receptor ligands, I-131-MIBG therapy, radiation iodine therapy)
- Surgical curative and palliative resection procedures
- Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and, if necessary, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Radiation therapy