The Prostate Cancer Center introduces itself

Our interdisciplinary prostate cancer center coordinates the consultation, diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer and organizes the care of patients and their relatives. Whether you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer for the first time or have come to us with advanced tumor disease: You are in the best hands with us.

The Prostate Cancer Center is managed by the Clinical Department of Urology and Urological Oncology. A special feature of this center is the close cooperation between different specialist departments in order to provide you with comprehensive treatment. Thanks to this close cooperation between different institutions, we can offer you as a patient a broad range of diagnostics and therapies that you will only find in a few Clinical Departments.

As a university hospital, Hannover Medical School is home to a large number of specialist areas that work across departments. Cancer can therefore be treated effectively and in a patient-oriented manner. With the Prostate Cancer Center, Prof. Dr. med. Markus Kuczyk's Clinical Department has established an official point of contact for prostate cancer patients, which ensures all-round care in accordance with the standards of the German Cancer Society. The interdisciplinary center of the Clinical Department of Urology and Urological Oncology specializes in differentiated diagnostics and individualized therapy and, with a number of contractually regulated internal and external cooperation partners, provides a closed service and care chain that is hardly comparable.

Mission statement of the Prostate Cancer Center

We, the Clinical Department of Urology and Urological Oncology and the cooperation partners of the Prostate Cancer Center at Hannover Medical School, place our patients at the center of our actions and are committed to this mission statement.

Our daily work is characterized by the guiding principle "Your quality of life is our goal" . It is an attempt to meet all your wishes and possible fears and to offer you top medical care not only in the area of supramaximal care, but also for "simple" urological problems.

Who are we?

The Prostate Cancer Center consists of a network of specialists from various medical and nursing disciplines and ensures the care of all patients with prostate diseases. This makes us a reliable partner in our country's social system.
In addition, the Prostate Cancer Center is committed to economic management and strives for the acceptance and support of cost bearers.

What do we stand for?

It is important to us to respond to the individual and personal needs of our patients so that they can take an active role in the decision-making process and implementation of diagnostics and therapy ("informed consent"). We attach great importance to the integration of relatives and the support of the psychosocial environment. In this way, we implement our major objective of respecting the dignity and self-determination of every patient:

• We base all medical and nursing services on the current state of scientific knowledge.

• We are open to further developments and innovations.

• We work well together in the interests of our patients.

• Together, we ensure a good working atmosphere in which striving for the best results is a pleasure and we feel comfortable as employees.

• We do everything we can to constantly develop personally and professionally.

What values are we committed to?

• Humanity and integrity are the foundations of our daily actions.

• We show respect for everyone.

• Our actions are always characterized by tolerance and consideration.

• The quality standards we apply should be transparent to the public and form the basis for improvement measures. The Prostate Cancer Center thus follows the central mission statement of our Facilities or Institutions, which emphasizes strengthening the competence of all employees for the benefit of patients.

What do we want to achieve?

• Patient satisfaction by asking and assessing the extent to which the needs and expectations of our patients are met.

• Quality-supported, guideline-based patient care by an interdisciplinary team of experts in the field of prostate cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare.

• Continuous further development of our quality of results with regard to the state of medical services.

• High cure rates and low complication rates.

• To be an innovative high-performance center.

• Working in partnership with cooperation partners and referring physicians.

• Consistently transparent rules for all processes and compliance with them.

Interdisciplinary conferences

A special feature of our Prostate Cancer Center is the regular interdisciplinary conferences.

Our prostate cancer consultation, the so-called pre-therapeutic conference , takes place every week. Prior to treatment, each patient case is discussed in this conference, existing documents such as radiological images (e.g. CT, skeletal scintigraphy) or pathological findings are reviewed and evaluated and, based on this, an individual treatment is determined in close consultation with the patient. Urology and radiotherapy are always involved in the pre-therapeutic conference.

There is also a weekly urological-oncological tumor conference involving the urology, radiology and oncology departments, in which patient cases are discussed together.

Your journey to our prostate cancer center begins with your presentation in our prostate cancer consultation or in our general consultation - regardless of whether you have been newly diagnosed with prostate cancer or have already been treated elsewhere.

Patients and their relatives can make an appointment via the channels listed on the contact page. During the consultation, we will first collect the therapy-relevant findings from your documents, your medical history and the images you bring with you.
These findings are then incorporated into a consultation on the available treatment options. In most cases, the result is an interdisciplinary therapy recommendation that is given to you and your treating physicians. Our aim here is to provide neutral advice that is not intended to convince you as a patient of a particular therapy, but to give you the basis for a well-founded therapy decision.

If, based on this consultation, you decide to undergo treatment at one of the Facilities or Institutions belonging to the Prostate Cancer Center, we will plan the next steps for you.

The treatment pathway

If you opt for treatment at the Prostate Cancer Center, you are opting for a reliable, highly standardized therapy, regardless of which option you choose.

The guidelines of the German Society of Urology(DGU) and the European Association of Urology(EAU) are the benchmark. Your therapy is mapped out in clearly defined treatment paths, which allows us to guarantee a high and continuous quality of treatment and patient safety.

Main cooperation partner

The main cooperation partners are the Clinical Departments and Facilities or Institutions that participate in the pre- and post-therapeutic conferences, i.e. are significantly involved in the therapy decision and its implementation.

• Clinical Department of Hematology and Oncology
• Clinical Department of Radiotherapy and Special Oncology
• Clinical Department of Nuclear Medicine
• Institute of Radiology
• Institute of Pathology

Cooperation partners within the MHH

The comprehensive care of our patients at the MHH is characterized by a large number of in-house cooperation partners. The common goals of all partners involved are high-quality patient care, a short, reliable and standardized exchange of information and a commitment to the basic ethical values of the Prostate Cancer Center.

The following Facilities or Institutions have been won as cooperation partners within the MHH:

• Hospital chaplaincy
• Social services
• Clinical Department for Rehabilitation Medicine
• Central Pharmacy
• Clinical Department of Haematology, Haemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation
• Human Genetics
• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine
• Psycho-oncology
• Palliative medicine
• Comprehensive Cancer Center Hannover (Claudia von Schilling Center)
• Institute of Clinical Chemistry

Cooperating urologists in private practice

We have concluded cooperation agreements with several urological practices in the greater Hanover area to ensure short communication channels and seamless care for our patients beyond the boundaries of our Clinical Department.

We are proud to have gained the following practices for this form of cooperation:

• Praxisgemeinschaft Dr. Hagemann, Hr. Reese
  Practice Peine
  Schwarzer Weg 1
  31224 Peine
  
  Phone: 05171 / 13331 or 05171 / 9879980
  Fax: 05171 / 13615
  
  Practice Lehrte
  Parkstraße 16+18
  31275 Lehrte
  
  Phone: 05132 / 8 23 05 40
  Fax: 05132 / 8 23 05 41
  
  Practice Wunstorf
  Am Stadtgraben 28
  31515 Wunstorf
  
  Phone: 05031 / 9623250
  Fax: 05031 / 9623260
  
• Practice Dr. Volker Grünewald
  Sutelstr. 54 a
  30659 Hannover

  Phone: 0511 / 640327
  Fax: 0511 / 6478534
  

• Joint practice Dr. Gonnermann / Eichhofer
  Joint practice
  Dr. Gonnermann/ Eichhofer
  Vinzenzkrankenhaus
  Lange-Feld-Straße 31
  30559 Hannover
  
  Phone: 0511 / 950 2285, 0511 / 950 2286
  Fax: 05 11 / 950 2288
  
• Joint practice Dr. Norbert Schlote & Höfer
  Oberricklingen Health Center / Urology
  Wallensteinstr. 23D
  30459 Hannover
  Phone: 0511 / 414770
  Fax: 0511 / 414717
  
  Hannes-Dietrich Höfer
  Urological practice
  Am Fuhrenkampe 104
  30419 Hannover
  
  Phone: 0511 / 791200
  Fax: 0511 / 797634
  
  
• Dr. Olaf Heuer's practice
  Sägemühlenstr. 1 a
  29221 Celle
  
  Phone: 05141 / 214555
  Fax: 05141 / 22446
  
• Practice Ellen Leukefeld
  Bodenstedtstraße 8
  31224 Peine
  
  Phone: 05171 / 580 8 222
  Fax: 05171 / 580 8 224
  
• Practice Mathias Hofer
  Specialist in Urology
  Johann-Piltz-Ring 3
  30629 Hannover
  
  Phone: 0511 / 27002922
  Fax: 0511 / 27002923
  
• Dr. Michael Seidler's practice
  Walsroder Straße 147a
  30853 Langenhagen
  
  Phone: 0511 / 773513
  Fax: 0511 / 9735348
  
• Dr. Uwe Hofmeister's practice
  Landrat-Beushausen-Str. 26
  (Ameos Clinical Department Alfeld)
  31061 Alfeld
  
  Phone: 05181 / 806561
  Fax: 05181 / 3679

Cooperation partners outside the MHH

Cooperation partners outside Hannover Medical School include self-help groups and rehabilitation facilities:

• Prostate Cancer Self-Help Group Hannover, Reinhold Linneweber

Cooperation agreements have been concluded with the following rehabilitation facilities:http://www.klinikamschwarzenbacherteich.de/NEU/

• Reha-Zentrum Oberharz, PD Dr. med. Johannes Teichmann
• Clinical Department am Kurpark, Dr. med. Dr. phil. Stefan Buntrock