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 – A relaxed young man looking
toward the future with confidence:
Christian is again living life to the full.
 – A summer’s day back home
in Beuren. After a year of worry,
the family is once again enjoying life
together.
Christian’s mother
“This experience has brought us closer
together. We’ve become very caring and
gentle with one another.”
Certainty is the key factor. The therapy has been effective. “Luckily, the tumor’s gone,”
says Christian. Finally, life can return to normal. Now, it’s out of the hospital and back
to school. “What I want is to finish school and start an apprenticeship.” A joyful prospect
a year after the big shock of the summer of . At first, Christian felt ill. Then his eyes
and face turned yellow. The diagnosis at Reutlingen Hospital: an advanced pancreatic
tumor obstructing the bile duct. Christian’s mother remembers the fateful day: “I can’t
describe it: tears, anger, rage, sadness – I couldn’t control my feelings.”
Examination with the Biograph mMR scanner
The specialists in Tübingen launched their attack on the tumor immediately. “I had chemo-
therapy for the first four months, then radiation, and then chemotherapy for four more
months,” reports Christian. “After every second treatment, they stuck me into the tube to
see how well the chemotherapy was working.” The tube, as Christian calls the Siemens
Biograph mMR, is an innovative combination of MRI and PET technology that helps physicians
monitor the impact of chemotherapy treatments. The system can simultaneously display
structures in the body and their metabolic activity.