Clinical Oncology Week

Cutaneous Melanoma - Less extensive diagnostic procedures are sufficient in primary tumor stages

Epstein Barr Virus - Targeting therapy to virus is best way to selectively eliminate EBV cancers

Esophageal Cancer - Combination use of intracavitary brachytherapy refines treatment outcome

Esophageal Cancer - Irinotecan and docetaxel shows some activity in extensively pretreated patients

Extremity Sarcomas - Complex reconstruction helps in the management of extremity sarcomas

Gastric Cancer - A phase II clinical trial evaluates effect of paclitaxel on ascites

Gastric Cancer - Taxanes may be useful for clinical application against gastric cancer

Hepatic Cancer - No survival advantage associated with embolization versus supportive care

Intrathecal Chemotherapy - Meningeal carcinomatosis ventricular dendritic cells can be used for therapy

Leukemia Therapy - Novel assay detects low levels of STI-571 resistance mutations in CML patients

Lung Cancer - Dolastatin 15 analogue LU 103793 is ineffective in treating advanced non-SCLC

Lung Cancer - Lung cancer chemoprevention may be moving from concept to reality

Lung Cancer - No need to change postoperative treatment, says scientist

Lung Cancer - Surgery is not too risky for treating lung cancer in elderly patients

Metastatic Cancer - During the last year of life, pain in many cases may be suboptimally treated

Multiple Myeloma -  Cyclin D1 overexpression predicts favorable outcome of MM multiple myeloma treatment

Neuroblastoma - Children may not benefit from neuroblastoma screening at 1 year of age

Neuroblastoma - Retinoid therapy of high-risk neuroblastoma improved event-free survival

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Tc-99m TF scan is a potential tool to detect supradiaphragmatic NHL

Ovarian Cancer - Ovarian cancer screening is being studied prospectively

Ovarian Carcinoma - Researchers review the pathology of ovarian carcinoma

Pancreatic Cancer - Celecoxib added to gemcitabine and radiotherapy results in more toxicity

Pediatric Neurology - Multimodal therapy for neuroectodermal tumors may lead to future lymphoma

Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome - Could diabetes treatments fight cancer?

Prostate Cancer - Biochemical failure decreased with hormone therapy in prostate cancer

Prostate Cancer - Prostate cancer diagnosis using ultrasound elastography is accurate

Prostate Cancer - Quality not quantity matters most in surgeon

Rectal Cancer - Small changes in hospital practice bring significant benefits to patients

Retinoblastoma - Survivors face increased risk of a second cancer

Soft-Tissue Sarcomas - PET aids in the understanding of the biological behavior of soft-tissue sarcomas

Stem-Cell Transplantation - G-CSF-primed BM autografts improve hematopoietic recovery in some cancer patients

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Oral sirolimus shows promise as graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis

Stem-Cell Transplantation - Two-color FISH sex chromosome analysis useful stem-cell chimerism monitoring

Thyroid Cancer - Dual-phase Tl-201 thyroid scan detects malignant nonfunctioning thyroid nodules

Transplant Medicine - Genetically predisposed kidney allografts may be at cancer risk