Cancer detectives: personalized medicine in action

Imagine there are secret traces in our bodies, changes in our genes that doctors have to decode in order to find out how to detect and fight nasty diseases - like cancer. But be careful: Every cancer is different, and that's why every cancer patient needs special treatment. As a cancer detective, you will learn how to decode the tiny traces of cancer in the genes. Help us find out which drug can best defeat it!

You can become a researcher yourself at our interactive station:

• Exciting experiments: get to know the common enemy! Look at real cells under the microscope and find out how doctors recognize cancer.
• Personalized medicine in oncology: Find the best treatment! How does personalized medicine differ from other standard therapies in the treatment of cancer? Find the right treatment and understand how targeted personalized medicine works.

After successful treatment, you will be awarded the title of "Cancer Detective" because you have learned how to beat cancer through clever research and customized medicine!

Further information on the homepage of the Central German Cancer Center