As of: January 26, 2024, 9:00 a.m
By: Sebastian Tauchnitz
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Prof. Reinhold Lang, head of general and visceral surgery, enthusiastically presents together with consultant Dr.
Monika Raidl the planning.
Manageable size as an advantage © RALF RUDER
The certification of the Weilheim Hospital as a colon cancer center should be completed by 2025.
For patients, this means that they can concentrate entirely on getting healthy.
Weilheim
– In Schongau, the outpatient center in the current hospital is scheduled to open on March 1st.
In Weilheim, intensive work is currently being done to establish the hospital as a so-called key provider.
The offer will gradually be expanded.
A first step is the establishment of a national colorectal cancer center at the Weilheim Hospital.
Prof. Reinhold Lang, chief physician of general and visceral surgery, presented the concrete plans together with quality management consultant Dr.
Monika Raidl in front.
In Weilheim, colon cancer patients have been treated at the highest level for a long time, says Lang.
In this respect, most of the criteria that the German Cancer Society formulates for a colon cancer center are already met today.
Now it's about documenting everything precisely, defining the processes and clarifying responsibilities.
Treatment tailored to the patient
Because the goal, as Monika Raidl, managing director of the consulting firm of the same name, puts it, “is that patients simply remain patients who concentrate on what is important: getting healthy.”
Dr. should take care of all the rest.
Jana Schäfer, the coordinator of the colorectal cancer center, will take care of it.
She is where all the threads and information come together.
She ensures that all specialist departments involved – oncology, radiology, radiotherapy, gastroenterology, psycho-oncology, pathology and surgery – are informed and involved.
She clarifies that all findings will be available when the “tumor board” comes together.
A conference in which one or two representatives from each specialist department take part and together determine a treatment path that is proposed to the patient.
This is also important because every patient needs treatment that is tailored to them and their illness, as Lang emphasized in the press interview.
Surgery is not always advisable straight away; sometimes radiation or chemotherapy should be used first before deciding on a surgical procedure.
At their conference, the experts work together to find the best treatment path for the patient.
Case numbers are falling because prevention is working well
In any case, the chances of recovery are now very good, especially for colon cancer, says Lang: “We cure significantly more patients than we have a bad course of disease.” Due to the now very good colon cancer prevention, the number of cases is declining anyway.
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This makes it all the more important to concentrate the treatment of those affected in competence centers like in Weilheim.
There are currently around 45 colon cancer patients who are operated on in-house every year.
In order to be recognized as a colon cancer center, this number must grow to 50, said the chief physician.
That's why certification as a colorectal cancer center is so important, to make it clear to patients that they are "in the best hands" in Weilheim.
“Our patients still have names”
One of the arguments, in addition to the interdisciplinary all-round care, which also includes psychological help and genetic counseling for the next generation, is the manageable size of the Weilheim hospital: “With us, the patients still have names and know their treating doctors.
Here they are not just numbers like in the huge large hospitals,” says Lang.
This is also an advantage for the resident doctors in the region.
Because in the end they advise their patients where they should seek treatment.
“And the doctors in particular really appreciate the fact that they can simply call me on my private cell phone if they have a question,” says Lang.
Last but not least, official certification as a colorectal cancer center from 2025 would create a unique selling point.
“There is currently no colorectal cancer center in the entire 82 postcode area.
The next one would be in Agatharied,” says Monika Raidl.
And the Weilheim hospital needs unique selling points if it wants to survive.