Our scientific universities are excellent: Semmelweis was able to present its scientific and educational activities at a prestigious international event, while being proud of a new procedure that helps children with cancer to give birth later, and the equipment park in Pécs has been expanded with the latest radiotherapy device, which also improves the treatment of cancer patients.
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The Semmelweis delegation to London was headed by Dr. It was chaired by Bella Merkle, who told this year’s Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Catalinra Carrico and Dr. He began his speech by referring to Ferenc Krausz: “Their success also draws attention to Hungarian science. And one more thing: the importance of cooperation. If we share and coordinate our knowledge with our international partners, we can make our research more efficient and thus achieve great results.”
He added that Semmelweis also collaborates with Harvard University, Karolinska Institutet (also known as the Swedish Medical University) and the University of Birmingham.
One day procedure – no scar
Merkley also participated in a roundtable discussion entitled The Evolution of Higher Education: Challenges, Trends and Innovation – A Forum of Challenges with Strengthening Academic and Scientific Cooperation, in the presence of the following international bodies:
- doctor. Beatrix Busset, Vice-Rector for Education and Studies at the University of Cologne
- doctor. Melanie Madhani, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham
- doctor. Clive Page is Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Department of Pulmonary Pharmacology at King’s College London
- doctor. Ronak Rajani, Consultant Cardiologist, King’s College London
- doctor. Mark Westwood, director of medical education at Barts Heart Center
- doctor. Pál Morovic-Horvat, Director of the Center for Medical Imaging at Semmelweis University
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Next, on behalf of Semmelweis, Dr. Adam Tarnocki and Dr. Twin researcher David Tarnocki, founders of the Hungarian Twin Registry, presented their latest findings on potential links between intestinal health and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
It is indeed a local development that, for the first time in Hungary, the Semmelweis University Pediatric Clinic is able to perform an operation that helps children with cancer to have their own children later.
We remove the right or left ovary, or part of it, through the navel
Dr. said. Zita Sokosd, specialist at the Tűzoltó utca Department of the Pediatric Clinic. The surgeon who performed the first operations explained that due to the minimal burden on the girl’s body, only three small incisions are made on the skin, and the ovary is removed with the help of long and thin instruments without damaging the fallopian tube.
The tissue is divided into several pieces in the Department of Assisted Reproduction at the University’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic, and is frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen vapor at a temperature of minus 196 degrees Celsius until the patient is 25 years old, and can be extended every five years. after that. When the time comes, the ovary is transplanted back into the abdominal cavity.
What are the experiences in the West?
According to information from Semmelweis University, side effects of some treatments (chemotherapy, radiation, bone marrow transplantation) for childhood cancer can lead to insufficient functioning of the ovaries, hormonal disorders, and ultimately infertility. This is avoided by removing and freezing the ovary, which is a very good experience in Western Europe and America.
At home, this procedure was only available to adults, but in recent months, five interventions have already been performed on children.
The license allows this intervention only before treatments with a high risk of infertility, so he estimates that twenty to thirty patients will be able to enter the program every year, said Dr. Daniel Erdely, a hematologist at the Department of Tűzoltó utca at the Semmelweis University Pediatric Clinic. However, the big advantage is that after a one-day surgical procedure, the patient can go home on the same day or the next day, moreover, there is no visible scar after the procedure.
More comfortable, faster and safer
The radiotherapy device acquired by the Oncology Institute of the University of Pécs Clinical Center (PTE) also provides state-of-the-art assistance in the treatment of cancer patients.
this Varian Halcyon Low power linear accelerator device, which Dr. According to Andor Sebastian, Head of the Clinical Center, it occupies a smaller space and works quieter, which makes it more comfortable and safer for patients, because it involves less radiation exposure and works faster than its predecessor, so they can treat more patients on a daily basis, with higher standards and greater patient safety.
The entire development cost 1.6 billion HUF, of which PTE contributed 800 million HUF, and another 800 million HUF came from local government and EU funds.
More than 8,000 radiation therapy events are performed in inpatient and outpatient care each year, Andor Sebastian said. At the Oncology Institute of PTE KK, more than 1,500 patients are treated annually with radiotherapy, and approximately 300-400 patients are cared for daily.
