Nutrition is a particularly important topic for cancer patients. Personal consultations are offered by the consultant for nutrition and dietetics, Ms. Karin von Burg, MSc clin. nutr. nutritionist SVDE, on our premises in the TBZO. You will receive information on nutrition that is tailored to your individual eating habits and disease situation. The tumor disease itself can lead to changes in the metabolism and the side effects of the therapy can lead to a premature feeling of fullness, nausea, digestive problems or loss of appetite. This often results in unwanted weight loss and an associated feeling of weakness. Even after treatment, patients and their relatives often have questions about their diet. During a consultation, the dietician can show you ways to achieve an improved quality of life through a healthy and tasty diet and also ensure that you do not restrict yourself unnecessarily.
If you would like an appointment, you are welcome to contact the medical and/or nursing team in Chur. If you have a doctor's prescription, the costs of the consultations will be covered by your basic health insurance.

Our consultation hours can be held in German, French, Italian and English.

We also offer the continuation of treatments for patients who are only staying in the region for a short time for vacation.

Registration with the TBZO can be made via the family doctor, a specialist or the patients themselves, provided they are not insured under a family doctor model.

The Tumor & Breast Center Eastern Switzerland Chur provides the oncology consultation service at Schiers Hospital (link provided). The consultation hours in Schiers take place every Tuesday and, since May 2022, every second Thursday.

Personalized cancer therapy: molecular oncology consultation and molecular tumour board (MTB) (in cooperation with the University Hospital Zurich)
From November 2019, we will be offering a molecular oncology consultation at the Tumor and Breast Center Eastern Switzerland in Chur. Our aim here is to integrate individualized treatment options into the clinical care of our patients. It is now possible to analyze genomic changes in tumour diseases at the molecular level. A broad spectrum of methods is used for diagnosis, which is carried out at the Institute of Pathology and Molecular Pathology at the University Hospital Zurich. These genetic tests are only carried out after the patient has been informed in detail and has given their written consent. In order to be able to offer our patients optimal care and to derive possible therapeutic consequences from the molecular diagnostics, we will discuss our patients at the molecular tumor board of the University Hospital Zurich.

At these conferences, a multidisciplinary team discusses the results and makes recommendations on how to proceed. The overall clinical situation of the patient in the individual case is also taken into account. Finally, we can discuss the findings, recommendations and therapeutic steps with the patient. This consultation is offered for all tumour entities, regardless of whether there is an initial diagnosis or a later line of therapy in a metastatic situation, for second opinions or also for patients for whom so-called standard therapy can no longer be offered and a personalized therapy option is sought.

We offer genetic consultations in close cooperation with the TBZO location in St.Gallen.
You can find out more about this service from Dr. med. Barbara Bolliger and Dr. med. Salome Riniker here

For the clarification of breast findings, we work together with the Radiology Institute South East (Dr. med. G. Reutter) or with the Fontana Women's Hospital in Chur.
At the patient's request, the examination can also be carried out at the certified Tumor and Breast Center of Eastern Switzerland in St. Gallen.