Treatment

Medical innovations are rapidly expanding therapy options for many diseases. Keep reading to find more information on new therapies, surgical techniques, effective medication and patient care.

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News • Drug-coated balloons as alternative

Many heart patients could avoid permanent stents, study finds

Thousands of heart patients could be treated without having a metal stent permanently implanted in their arteries – according to research from the University of East Anglia.

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News • Promising procedure

Testicular tissue transplant offers fertility hope

Doctors have performed a procedure to transplant a young man's testicular tissue that was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy, in a potential breakthrough for male fertility preservation.

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News • Organ-preserving treatment

New radiotherapy approach to spare rectal cancer patients surgery and stoma

Novel radiotherapy may save increasingly many rectal cancer patients from surgery and stoma. Finland is at the forefront of implementing this novel treatment.

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Interview • Personalised implants in CMF surgery

Digital planning in skull reconstruction: from benefit to necessity

Whenever cranioplasty is discussed, the conversation usually centres on the implant material: titanium or PEEK. However, for Prof. Thomas Schouman, a CMF surgeon at the AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, and Maarten Zandbergen, Market Manager for Cranio-Maxillofacial Solutions at Materialise, predictability begins much earlier – with digital planning, long before the patient enters the operating theatre.

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News • Study evaluates effect on patient recovery

Anaesthesia: TIVA or inhalation for major surgery?

Choice of general anaesthetic for major surgery can continue to be based on patient and clinician preference, according to the largest ever trial comparing the two main techniques used in the NHS.

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News • Gynaecologic oncology

Vulvar cancer: New surgical technique can restore the clitoris

Surgery for vulvar cancer can save lives, but also significantly affect a woman's sexual function and quality of life. Now, a new surgical technique makes it possible to restore the clitoris.

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News • Radiation oncology trial

Tile-based radiation therapy to lower risk of recurrence in brain metastases

Using implanted collagen tiles during brain surgery, a new kind of radiation therapy (TBRT) could significantly lower the risk of recurrence in brain metastases, a new study finds.

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Article • Acute cardiovascular care

Saving lives with timely transfers to cardiac arrest centres

Networks of certified cardiac arrest centres could dramatically improve survival and neurological outcomes for patients who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. At the ESC 2026 congress in Munich, experts debated how hub-and-spoke models in acute cardiovascular care can standardise treatment – not only for cardiac arrest, but also for pulmonary embolism and cardiogenic shock.

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