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The
Thoraxklinik is the largest center for the treatment of thoracic
diseases in Germany. It is
recognized as a maximum-care hospital. It is an academic
teaching hospital of
University of Heidelberg.
Its departments of Thoracic Surgery and Medical Oncology are
integrated into the Heidelberg University Clinics. Around 5,000
people are admitted annually as inpatients and similar numbers
of patients are additionally treated as outpatients. With its
wide spectrum of quality health care, the clinic holds a leading
position not only in
Germany
but also in Europe. The clinic
is one of the partners of
National
Cancer Center Heidelberg (National Center for Tumor Diseases
(NCT).
Years of scientific research cooperation with well-known German
cancer research center “Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)”
guarantees the clinic´s high qualitative patient treatments and
state-of-art medical cares at international level. Other fields
of interest are clinical research and new treatment strategy
development, such as multi-modal treatment concepts – surgery in
combination with radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy, chemotherapy
and radiotherapy.
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