Heidelberg University Hospital

At Heidelberg University Hospital, the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) is integrated, a cooperation project of the German Cancer Research Centre, the German Cancer Aid and the Heidelberg University Hospital. The center has a tumor outpatient center with interdisciplinary tumor consulting hours and own smoker consultation sessions. In addition, the center accommodates an oncological outpatient clinic with genetic counseling, psychosocial cancer aftercare and social services.

Regular tumor conferences with doctors from various disciplines as well as experts from research, care and counseling services enable individually tailored therapies for patients depending on the type of tumor.

Heidelberg University Hospital has an own clinical division for neuro-oncology, where radio-oncologists, internal and pediatric oncologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-radiologists and neuropathologist work closely together. Cooperation between neuro-oncology and neuroradiology enables accurate diagnosis using imaging methods and innovative, less invasive treatment methods in the therapy of pain and in diseases of the vascular system of brain and spinal cord. Technical and methodological developments have made significant progress in neuroradiology in recent years.

In addition, Heidelberg University Hospital has a reference center for minimally invasive surgery. The reference center was certified by the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV) for its achievements, particularly in relation to surgery without scars. In a training center, surgeons are trained by means of a computer simulator to master technically demanding and complex minimally invasive interventions.