Hermann Holthusen Prize for state-of-the-art prostate cancer therapy procedures
PD Dr. Constantinos Zamboglou receives the award of the German Society of Radiation Oncology for his groundbreaking habilitation thesis
PD Dr. Constantinos Zamboglou, senior physician at the Department - University of Freiburg Medical Center - University of Freiburg, has been awarded this year's Hermann Holthusen Prize of the German Society of Radiation Oncology (DEGRO), endowed with 5,000 euros, for his postdoctoral thesis on prostate cancer treatment.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is usually treated with high-dose radiation of the entire prostate. Zamboglou's pioneering research work integrates modern imaging techniques into radiotherapy planning for patients with prostate tumors. Tumors can thus be localized even more precisely and their biological characteristics taken into account in cancer therapy. As a result, only the tumor is irradiated in high doses and adjacent healthy tissue is spared. "No two tumors and patients are the same. Thanks to personalized radiotherapy planning, we are breaking away from one-size-fits-all treatment," explains Zamboglou.
Funding for the Decade Against Cancer
The innovative approach is being further researched in a large study funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the National Decade Against Cancer. The aim is to compare conventional radiotherapy with targeted radiotherapy of the tumor in newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients. "Radiotherapy has made enormous progress in recent years. We want our patients to benefit from these latest developments as quickly as possible," says Zamboglou.
The Hermann Holthusen Prize commemorates a pioneer of modern radiotherapy, Prof. Dr. Hermann Holthusen, and has been awarded annually by DEGRO since 1998. The award recognizes outstanding research work by young scientists.
Caption: PD Dr. Constantinos Zamboglou receives the Hermann Holthusen Prize 2020.
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