Prostate Check

Prostate Check

Prostate cancer prevention

Nearly one in seven men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during some point in their life. Fortunately, the survival rate is extremely high, especially in cases where the prostate cancer is diagnosed early.

Prostate cancer screening is the screening process used to detect undiagnosed prostate cancer in men without signs or symptoms. Screening precedes a diagnosis and subsequent treatment. The digital rectal examination (DRE) is one screening tool, during which the prostate is manually assessed through the wall of the rectum. The second screening tool is the measurement of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood.

Digital rectal examination (DRE)

During a digital rectal examination (DRE), a healthcare provider slides a gloved finger into the rectum and presses on the prostate, to check its size and to detect any lumps on the accessible side. If the examination suggests anomalies, a PSA test is performed. If an elevated PSA level is found, a follow-up test is then performed.

Transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)

Transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) has the advantage of being fast and minimally invasive, and better than MRI for the evaluation of superficial tumor. It also gives details about the layers of the rectal wall, accurate and useful for staging primary rectal cancer. While MRI is better in visualization of locally advanced and stenosing cancers, for staging perirectal lymph nodes, both TRUS and MRI are capable. TRUS has a small field of view, but 3D TRUS can improve the diagnosis of anorectal diseases.

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA)

The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is a blood test that measures your level of PSA. The PSA test is usually done to screen for prostate cancer in men who have no symptoms.

PSA is released into a man’s blood by the cells of his prostate gland. A PSA test can show if you have normal or high amounts of PSA in your blood. A high PSA level can have many causes, including an enlarged prostate, an infection, or, less often, prostate cancer.

PSA tests can help find some prostate cancers early. But it may not help you live any longer than if you had no screening.

Often the PSA test can show high levels of PSA that aren’t caused by cancer (called a false-positive). If your PSA test is high, you may need more tests—like a prostate biopsy—to check for prostate cancer. These tests can be harmful. For example, prostate biopsies can cause infections. For a few men, these infections are very serious. These tests can also cause a lot of worry.

PSA tests may miss some cancers. Not all prostate cancers cause a high PSA, so some PSA tests will be normal when there is cancer (called a false-negative). But the more serious prostate cancers usually do cause a high PSA.

Overdiagnosis

A PSA test can find cancers that would not have caused a problem (called overdiagnosis). You might have this type of cancer, but a PSA test can’t tell if the cancer is harmless. So you may get cancer treatment—including surgery or radiation—that you don’t need.

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Breast Cancer Prevention

Breast Cancer Prevention

Breast Cancer Prevention

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. Through regular early-detection examinations, breast cancer can often be already discovered at such an early stage that you and your doctor can still not feel it. With a timely diagnosis, the disease can be treated gently and cured in most cases.

Gentle breast-cancer screening using digital mammography

Mammography (X-ray examination of the breast) is applied for breast-cancer screening. It is recognised as the best screening measure for women who have no symptoms. Mammography is an X-ray examination allowing even the slightest changes in the structure of the breast tissue to be visualised. It is used mainly for identification of breast cancer. If breast cancer is detected early, it can almost always be cured.

Modern digital technology

We carry out the investigations exclusively using digital mammography, which is ultra-modern, safe and a very gentle examination technique. Digital mammography uses a significantly lower radiation dose than conventional analog mammography, and delivers excellent image quality.

Digital technology allows almost instantaneous presentation of the X-ray image on the computer. This enables the doctor to immediately evaluate the images, and make a diagnosis. The recording can also be further processed onscreen, greatly improving the analysis and diagnostic confidence.

Comprehensive consultation

It is an important priority to us to consult our patients thoroughly and professionally. During an extensive preliminary discussion our doctor will question you about undiagnosed symptoms, pain, family history and pre-existing conditions. If the doctor determines that sufficient indication for the examination exists, then he/she will hand you over to one of the friendly staff for the examination.

Following the investigation, we will explain the results to you, and together discuss if any further action is required and what that might include. If necessary, we will support you also to arrange further diagnostic steps.

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Heart Check

Herz-check

The aim for prevention and early detection:

to detect the risk factors and early forms of disease for each individual patient, in order to be able to initiate suitable countermeasures in good time.

Our examination and prevention programs are made to suit Your individual needs and personal situation, and takes potential known illnesses into account. Our cardiac specialists are among the top medical experts in cardiac imaging and diagnostics. They work closely together with metabolism experts, radiologists and internal medicine physicians and cover the whole range of diagnostics and therapy – all from a single source.

The range of the check-up comprises a number of differentiated heart and cardiovascular tests that make it possible to determine possible early stages of arteriosclerosis. Echocardiography, stress-echocardiography and vascular ultrasound can be augmented, if it provides useful, with cardiac CT or cardiac MRI. With these extensive tests the individual arteriosclerosis risk can be very well determined.  Of course, if desired we can extend the check up at any time without delay.

We will also be glad to discuss with You the various options for prevention. The following items are part of the Basic Heart Check:

  • Extensive Evaluation of the medical history to evaluate individual risk 
  • Physical examination and basic diagnostics (blood pressure, ECG, body fat analysis)
  • Basic Lab diagnostics
  • Cardiac ultrasound
  • Stress test (stationary bicycle)
  • Possibly vessel ultrasound, lung function
  • Determination of Risk Score (PROCAM, EURO-score)

Please contact us, we will be glad to answer Your questions. We do not perform rigid treatment programs, but only personalized care – this is our commitment to Your health.

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Gynaecological preventive examination

Gynaecological preventive examination

Duties of the attending physician if the patient wishes to obtain a "second opinion"

A gynaecological examination is done to assess the overall health of the female reproductive system. A gynaecological examination is helpful to assess the general state of health of the female reproductive system, as well as to identify potential infections or problems. During the exam, the gynaecologist will look at the external and internal reproductive organs, as well as at the breasts, to determine whether there are any problems or conditions present.

During a gynaecological examination, the gynaecologist will inspect your vulva and vagina. With both a physical examination and a transvaginal ultrasound, the doctor will also check your uterus and ovaries. It is very common to also do a smear test during the examination, to determine whether there are precancerous cells in your cervix. The sample taken is sent for examination in a laboratory with results shared, usually in a couple of weeks after the appointment.

The last part of the examination consists of a breast exam, where the gynaecologist checks for lumps or abnormalities. You will also be taught how to do a breast self-exam, so that you can do them at home periodically. The whole examination does not last more than 20-30 minutes.

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Skin Cancer Screening

Skin Cancer Prevention

Skin Cancer Screening

Skin cancer screenings allow the early detection of malign skin tumours and the evaluation of a patient’s risk to develop malign skin tumours in the future. All existing skin tumours are examined during a full body examination. In doing so, all moles are being assessed and the skin is searched for precursors of malign skin tumours. The focus lies especially on malignant melanoma (“black skin cancer”), basal-cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma (“fair skin cancer”). A regular performance of a screening is recommended from the age of puberty though the temporal interval between checks can be determined according to individual preferences.
This is why skin cancer screening is so important. We take the time to examine your skin in detail and give appropriate advice. This includes:
• Physical examination of the entire skin including mucous membranes and the scalp
• Determining your skin type and sensitivity to the sun
• Dermatoscopic examination
• Computerized video documentation and analysis of pigment spots with FotoFinder
• Computer-aided multispectral digital analysis (MelaFind®) for the assessment of atypical melanocytic skin lesions
• Three-dimensional spectral analysis (so called “optical biopsy”)
• Skin ultrasounds for suspicious pigmented moles
• Advice on the best sunscreen suited to your skin type
If an indication to remove a mole or a different skin tumour arises after a skin cancer screening, the removal can in most cases take place with local anaesthesia and is always made possible without long waiting periods.

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General preventive examinations

General preventive examinations

Our check-ups consist of many components, the value and significance of which have been proven in studies. The subsequent lifestyle consultation is similarly based on the analysis of the currently available data and is carried out in accordance with current scientific guidelines. We offer you following check-up examinations:

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