Patient information

Outpatient appointment

• Insurance card
• Referral slip
• Current medical reports (doctor's letter, operation report, laboratory, ECG, etc.) and images on CD with written findings (CT, MRI, etc.)

Inpatient stay

If it is a planned hospitalisation, you should use the time in advance to prepare yourself well. We have put together a checklist of the most important things to help you prepare for your hospitalisation.

You can find the checklist for your hospitalisation here.

As part of the certification process, an external quality control is carried out every year, which certifies our high level of quality in the treatment of patients with gynaecological tumours. The certification is a seal of quality that is awarded by an independent commission.

In addition to a high number of patients treated per year, the requirements for external certification include structures such as psycho-oncological counselling and care, specialised nursing staff and specialists, interdisciplinary cooperation with other specialist departments and the holding of interdisciplinary tumour conferences. As a patient, you benefit from the high standards and the enormous medical quality in the treatment of gynaecological tumour diseases.

As a large university clinic with a focus on oncology, we treat an above-average number of patients with all different types of gynaecological tumours. Our specially trained specialists have completed many years of further training in the treatment of these diseases and have a wealth of experience.

We treat patients with gynaecological tumours on a daily basis. We offer the entire spectrum of surgical options. This ranges from minimally invasive ("keyhole") laparoscopy to operations with the so-called surgical robot (DaVinci) and so-called open surgery using an abdominal incision. The surgical procedures are performed exclusively by oncological specialists who have special qualifications and many years of experience.

As a university hospital, we are committed to advancing scientific progress. As a result, we may be able to offer you participation in a clinical trial. All the findings and advances in medicine in recent years have come from such studies, and we at Ulm University Hospital have also made our contribution. Many of our patients have been treated as part of a clinical trial in recent years.

We are also a leading centre of the AGO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie), one of the world's leading research groups for gynaecological tumours, and are therefore often in a position to offer you a new treatment method or a new drug. This means that you may receive a drug that will become the new standard in the future (usually in several years). This new therapy may also be associated with different or more side effects. We will therefore explain the advantages and disadvantages of the new therapy to you in a detailed discussion and give you sufficient time to make a decision. Even if you decide against a new form of treatment, you will receive optimal and comprehensive treatment at Ulm University Hospital.

A trial does not always have to mean a new drug: Sometimes a surgical method is investigated or we ask you to complete a questionnaire. Often only blood is taken or excess tissue from your operation is frozen so that analyses can be carried out on it at a later date using new procedures. Studies usually have a precisely defined schedule. We know from large studies that patients who take part in trials live longer, regardless of the type and spread of the disease. This is presumably due to the particularly intensive care patients receive in these trials. Unfortunately, we cannot offer participation in a trial to every patient at all times. However, you are welcome to contact us at any time to find out whether there is a suitable trial for you and your disease.

You can find an overview of all current trials under Research / Trials. If you have any further questions about clinical trials, please contact our study centre for further information.

Please make an appointment at the Centre for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer. In addition to a detailed consultation, a family tree of your family will be drawn up and the next steps will be discussed with you depending on your individual risk situation.

You can find detailed information on this on the website of the Centre for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer.

Even if the diagnosis of a tumour disease is initially about the specific therapy and cure of the disease, it is important for many women and men to be able to become parents after their treatment. As some medications can cause a reduction in fertility, the UniFee Fertility Centre offers those affected time and space for consultations on this topic even before treatment.

You can find detailed information on this on the UniFee Fertility Centre website.