Hallwang Clinic

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Hallwang Clinic GmbH
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place Dornstetten-Hallwangen
state Baden-Württemberg
Country Federal Republic of Germany
Employee 40
including doctors 7th
areas of expertise Medical oncology, hematology
founding May 13, 2014
Website www.hallwang-clinic.com
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The Hallwang Clinic GmbH is a privately-oncology specialist clinic in Dornstetten-Hallwangen , Baden-Wuerttemberg , which was founded in the 2014th

The clinic became known in particular because of the British actress Kate Winslet and the American actors and film producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), who supported patients at the clinic. The English actress Leah Bracknell was last named as a patient at the clinic.

Therapies

In addition to optimized and guideline-compliant therapies, such as conventional chemotherapy , the clinic offers modern immunotherapies , as well as localized radiation methods in collaboration with the university clinics , such as cyberknife , proton therapy , high-frequency ultrasound ( HIFU ), cryo , laser and radio frequency ablation , Transarterial Chemoemboilization . The clinic can also offer complementary medical therapies as part of an integrative oncological therapy approach. These include mistletoe therapy approaches , hyperthermia , vitamin substitution and, in collaboration with the Freiburg University Clinic, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO).

To assess therapeutic approaches , the clinic uses further analyzes using liquid biobsy , next-generation sequencing , microsatellite instability testing, analysis of gene amplifications / translocations and immune profiling. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTC) are also assessed.

As a non-university private clinic, the Hallwang Clinic does not publish any scientific data. However, therapeutic successes at the Hallwang Clinic are independently described as "exceptional" therapeutic successes, such as As recently by the director of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) UK, Christian Otten Meier, which is a response to treatment of a patient of Hallwang Clinic under an immunotherapy than as dramatic as it can get in cancer treatments describes .

Hallwangen Medical Campus

The Hallwangen Medical Campus in Dornstetten was founded by the Waldeck Klinik KG. The Waldeck Clinic was primarily a rehabilitation clinic with an integrative holistic therapy offer. In 2009, Ursula Jacob opened the “Private Clinic Dr. Ursula Jacob GmbH ”, which focused on holistic and alternative cancer therapies such as ozone therapy and hyperthermia . The "Private Clinic Dr. Ursula Jacob GmbH “closed in 2014. The American actress Farrah Fawcett is named as a patient of Ursula Jacob.

In 2014, Hallwang Clinic GmbH opened on the Hallwangen Medical Campus as the first private oncology specialist clinic. The medical team consists of specialists in medical oncology, hematology and internal medicine. The managing director of Hallwang Clinic GmbH is the pharmacist Albert Schmierer.

criticism

The Hallwang Clinic is controversial, on the one hand it is described as one of the outstanding ( high-profile) private clinics in Europe, which attracts patients from the USA, Great Britain, Australia and the Middle East. On the other hand, it is criticized for offering complementary cancer therapies. The clinic describes itself as a "pioneer in the field of patient-individualized cancer therapy" ( precision based oncology ). Criticism exists in particular due to the high treatment costs of the private clinic, u. a. for immunotherapies, as Christian Ottensmeier notes. Due to the high treatment costs and the different treatment options at the Hallwang Clinic, there was a high volume of "crowdfunding" from Great Britain, so that doctors from the American and British health systems in particular are concerned about patient migration. Furthermore, the patient-individualized approach and the use of complementary therapeutic approaches, such as B. ozone therapy and hyperthermia , which are not approved in the USA and Great Britain. An American breast surgeon, David Gorski, also criticizes the so-called off-label therapies of immunotherapies. He particularly criticizes the mixing of evidence-based and non-evidence-based therapies.

See also

Medical tourism

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Jessica Gibb: Kate Winslet surprises cancer mum after saving her life with Titanic fundraiser. February 5, 2018, accessed March 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet save life of mother with cancer. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  4. ^ Film star Dwayne Johnson pledges support for Aaron's Battle . In: grimsbytelegraph . July 21, 2018, ISSN  0307-1235 ( grimsbytelegraph.co.uk [accessed March 23, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Ex-Emmerdale actress Leah Bracknell reaches cancer crowdfunding goal. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Emmerdale's Leah Bracknell gives a positive update on her cancer battle. October 10, 2018, accessed on March 23, 2019 .
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  15. ↑ Albert Schmierer from Loßburg - manager profile at moneyhouse.de, accessed on March 23, 2019
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  18. ↑ What makes us different | Hallwang Private Oncology Clinic | Dornstetten | Germany. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
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