Focus: Oncology and surgery (skin tumor center) Diseases and treatment spectrum

 

Diseases

Patients with the following diseases are treated at the Skin Tumor Center Hannover:

  • Malignant melanoma ("black skin cancer")
  • Basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma with its precursors ("white skin cancer")
  • Mycosis fungoides and other lymphomas of the skin
  • Merkel cell carcinoma
  • Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
  • Angiosarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and other rare tumors of the skin
  • Benign neoplasms of the skin
  • Cutaneous lymphoma

 

Treatment spectrum

The Hannover Skin Tumor Center at Hannover Medical School is a focal area of the Clinical Department of Dermatology, Allergy and Venereology and an organ-specific tumor center in the MHH Oncology Center. There is the possibility of outpatient care, care in the dermato-oncological infusion outpatient clinic (in building K2, level 01) or inpatient treatment (on ward 41).

Further information

Surgical therapy

  • Experienced tumor surgery
  • Plastic-reconstructive surgery
  • Sentinel node biopsy (lymph node biopsy)

 

Drug therapy

  • Chemotherapies
  • Immunotherapies (e.g. checkpoint inhibitors)
  • Targeted therapies (e.g. BRAF inhibitors)
  • Therapy of cutaneous lymph nodes (e.g. UV therapy)
  • Photodynamic therapy of skin tumors and their precursors
  • Laser therapy
  • Drug therapies within the framework of studies. Further information can be found here

 

Cooperation with other Clinical Departments and Institutes of the MHH

  • Interdisciplinary tumor conference
  • Radiotherapy by the Clinical Department for Radiotherapy
  • Further interventions (lymph node dissections or operations on organs) by surgical clinics such as the ENT Clinic, General Surgery, Gynecology, Neurosurgery or Thoracic Surgery
  • Diagnostic measures, e.g. in the Institutes of Radiology, Neuroradiology and Nuclear Medicine
  • Claudia von Schilling Center, Center for University Cancer Medicine (Oncology Center)