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The article discusses the court case LG Kiel, judgment of 29.3.2019-8O190/16, rkr. wherein claim for doctor's liability on advising for alternative treatment instead of conventional medicine for breast cancer with lymph node metastases is questioned. It reports on cancer therapy, mammography and breast sonography.

The article titled "Liability of the gynecologist and radiologist for delayed treatment initiation in case of breast cancer" deals with the case of a patient who died from liver failure due to liver metastases of breast cancer as a result of delayed treatment initiation. The gynecologist and radiologist were held liable for treatment and information errors. The gynecologist had read the radiologist's findings but did not inform the patient about the urgent need for further clarification. The radiologist had suggested that no further clarification was necessary, although the mammography examination showed abnormal results. The lower courts awarded compensation to the patient's children and established the liability of both doctors. [Extracted from the article]

Präzisionsonkologie steht für moderne, individualisierte Tumortherapie. Die Erstellung molekularer Tumorprofile auf Basis softwaregestützter Genvariantenanalysen ermöglicht präzisere Diagnosen, bessere Therapieinformationen und damit eine optimierte Versorgung der Krebspatienten. Molekulare Diagnostik als Basis zielgerichteter und immunonkologischer Therapien hat inzwischen in vielen Indikationen Einzug in die medizinischen Leitlinien gefunden und den Einsatz verfügbarer Therapien auch bei seltenen Tumoren erheblich erweitert. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]