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An undesired effect of preventive screening for cancer is often overlooked: it’s not only the tendency to diagnose more and more cancers that would be likely to grow slowly – and to increase overdiagnosis – but [more]
Images of carbonized pizza, paella, croissant and meatballs with tzaziki are smartly used by a Danish campaign on sun safety advice for Danes tourists who love to spend their holidays in Southern Europe, where their [more]
Dear Alberto, We received the last Cancer World. Congratulations, it’s very nicely formatted, informative, well written and covers topics from a perspective rarely seen in “usual” specialised journals. We were particularly interested by the article [more]
The beta-carotene fiasco warned oncologists off suggesting supplements on the basis of observational studies. But with vitamin D now in the spotlight, how should doctors respond when their patients ask if it could help? A [more]
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Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy is a safe, accurate, and low-morbidity method for the pathologic staging of the regional nodal basin in primary cutaneous melanoma. Download full article