A recent study has found that high-dose radiation can be safely delivered for non-small-cell lung cancer provided careful consideration is given to the dosevolume relationship. Download full article
Anaplastic oligodendrogliomas are sensitive to chemotherapy, but the role and timing of chemotherapy remain controversial, according to the findings of a recent study. Download full article
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Should teenager cancer patients be treated as children or as adults? The answer is surely that they should be treated as teenagers but that’s not an option available to many of them. Download full [more]
If you trawl around looking for statistical relationships the chances are you will find some. Yet many researchers still assume such findings to be meaningful, and many readers are still all too ready to take [more]
In mid-March 2007, the breast cancer world will again converge on the beautiful Swiss town of St Gallen, for what will be the 10th Anniversary Conference on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer. Download [more]
To find out what makes cancers tick and work out how best to treat them, oncology must continually reinvent itself, applying rigorous methodology to interpret the results of welldesigned and accurately reported studies. So says [more]
Many patients are still being let down by a failure to follow clinical guidelines. It’s all very well to blame know-it-all doctors, but if the guidelines are hard to access and tricky to use, and [more]
European countries struggle to fund new cancer drugs which bring benefits at a high price. Meanwhile billions of euros are wasted, say researchers, because doctors prescribe branded drugs when a generic equivalent is just as [more]
Hernán Cortés-Funes scored a victory for medical oncology when he helped convince Spain to become the first European country to grant the discipline specialist status. A bitter split with radiotherapy dating from that time has [more]
Interest in addressing cancer patients’ emotional and psychological needs is far outstripping access to training all over the world. Now the International Psycho-Oncology Society and the European School of Oncology have clubbed together to fill [more]
A new predictive model developed by clinical geneticists in Edinburgh offers a useful tool for physicians making decisions relating to genetic testing, although its clinical application in patients with colorectal cancer for the identification of [more]
A recent study has shown that women with BRCA mutations are as likely to achieve local control with breast-conserving treatment as women without mutations, but have increased long-term risk of ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancer. [more]