Home
Perspectives
- Searching for the causes of cancer
![](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/bc4a1015fcb81d5a/9f350b47d58b/v/d30264b54099/CT_scan_Cinematic_Rendering.jpg)
Searching for the causes of cancer
In addition to investigating the causes, researchers are motivated by one thing above all else: the search for a cure.
Over 19 million cases worldwide each year – and the number is rising. Some people are affected in old age, others in childhood. Whenever cancer strikes, it is a life-changing disease. Its exact origins have been the subject of research since the advent of modern medicine over 150 years ago. As well as investigating the causes, researchers are motivated by one thing above all else: the search for a cure.
Cancer due to viruses?
Examining changes in tissue
Insights from the tiniest traces
An anomalous cell
Cancer is not “one” disease
Invisible radiation with a big impact
Also
known as radiation therapy, radiotherapy involves the use of ionizing or
particle radiation – generally high-energy X-rays – on a localized area in order to shrink or
completely destroy tumors within the treatment field.
The birth of radiotherapy
![Multivolt system from 1920](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/2b61ab9397cf892d/ab3b9245ba72/v/28d366598a23/MULTIVOLT.jpg)
AI and new radiation qualities in the fight against cancer
![CT for radiotherapy planning ENT tumor](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/4e83a7853aba6125/c340c5ceafee/v/ef4535aa5411/CT_radiotherapy_planning.jpg)
Computed Tomography imaging for radiation therapy planning of an otolaryngologic tumor together with MR and PET-imaging. (Courtesy of University Hospital Erlangen, Germany)
Display of a CT scan using Cinematic Rendering. While the CT scan the systems intelligently adapts to the patients breathing pattern in real time to reduce image artifacts that can occur during natural respiratory motion. The tumor was depicted in yellow. (Courtesy of University Hospital Groningen, Netherlands)
![Computed tomography in bronchial carcinoma](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/c8ddb57fe371253f/97ea0cf79e28/v/ca2eb4e9c4f7/CT-bronchial-carcinoma.jpg)
![Precise radiotherapy planning with Directi4D from Siemens Healthineers](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/5e66d246086991ab/ba28c78381b9/v/738b6b1a5b5f/Radiotherapy_planning.png)
![In the Heidelberg University Hospital the SOMATOM Confidence RT Pro system as well as the syngo.via RT Imaging Suite is working perfectly in combination.](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/1800000004938052/903a2e0620ce/v/baad0025809a/JuergenDebus-3_1800000004938052.jpg)
![History of X-ray technology and the early days of cancer therapy](https://corporate.webassets.siemens-healthineers.com/180223ca0ab94214/98b9e8940520/v/29a16056e219/Krebs.jpg)
Share this page
- References