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ots Ad hoc-Service: Eckert & Ziegler AG <DE0005659700> Eckert & Ziegler Cooperates with an Outpatient Brachytherapy Center

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Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und
Medizin- technik AG announces a cooperation with one of the leading
German private centres for low morbidity treatment of prostate cancer
with low activity sources, so-called brachytherapy. This
collaboration with Am- bulantes Operationszentrum im Ullsteinhaus
GmbH will consolidate the close contacts of the Berlin manufacturer
of miniature radioactive sources (seeds) for permanent implants and
positioning systems to the clinical community and enable the
establishment of training facilities for Eckert & Ziegler's further
expansion. The centre which is situated in Tempelhof, a district of
Berlin, will be used in the future to train natio- nal and
international teams of doctors as well as medical staff in order to
become proficient with the brachytherapy treatment, the handling and
the products of Eckert & Ziegler.
"The treatment of prostate cancer with low activity seeds is
considered to be a low morbidity procedure and is currently becoming
the stan- dard treatment for early stages of prostate cancer in the
USA", ex- plains Dr. Gunnar Mann, General Manager of Bebig GmbH,
which is the subsidiary of Eckert & Ziegler in charge of the
manufacturing and commercialisation of the seeds. "The advantage of
permanent implan- tation is that the urethra and the erectile nerves
are receiving low doses of irradiation, consequently typical side
effects as incontinence and impotence are reduced. Since the
treatment is normally an outpatient procedure, hospitalisation is not
necessary thus decreasing general me- dical costs". The treatment is
not yet well known in Germany and is only reimbursed upon request by
the Health Insurance.
Ambulantes Operationszentrum im Ullsteinhaus GmbH is one of the
first in Germany to have provided this outpatient procedure. The cen-
tre was founded last year in April and the procedures are performed
exclusively by highly trained and experienced doctors and medical
staff. The Berlin based operation centre is performing a significant
pro- portion of those prostate brachytherapy procedures, carried out
as an outpatient procedure in Germany. The doctors at the centre are
antici- pating about 100 procedures for the year 2001 for which each
patient will only remain half a day in the centre.
The Board of Directors
For further information please contact: Karolin Riehle Investor
Relations Eckert & Ziegler AG Robert-Rössle-Str. 10 13125 Berlin
www.ezag.com
Tel.: (+49 30) 94 10 84-138 Fax.: (+49 30) 94 10 84-112
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