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Clinical Oncology Week

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . July 19th, 2004

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Related Areas: Other Issues in Clinical Oncology Week | Other Publications

Breast Cancer - Utility of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer reviewed

Cancer Therapy - The treatment of cancer pain should involve neurosurgical treatments

Cancer Therapy - Treat the cancer, but take care to protect the heart, cancer cardiologists warn

Cancer Therapy - Utility of radiofrequency ablation of liver metastases reviewed

Thyroid Cancer - Genetic markers for malignant thyroid tumors identified

Assisted Reproduction - Frozen ovarian tissue technology may offer hope to women with cancer

Brain Metastases - Some aspects of managing brain metastases remain controversial

Brain Tumors - Diffusion tensor imaging of the brain is feasible

Breast Cancer - Abortion not implicated in carcinogenesis

Breast Cancer - Anastrozole recommended for first-line therapy for advanced disease

Breast Cancer - Smoking doesn't affect disease risk in carriers of BRCA mutations

Breast Cancer - Trastuzumab combined with epirubicin and cyclophosphamide is safe for the heart

Breast Cancer - Women can be considered activists in the breast cancer movement

Bronchial Diseases - Virtual bronchoscopy can visualize the trachea and proximal bronchial tree

Cancer Mortality - CDC: More people with cancer surviving

Cancer Therapy - Encouraging results from NCI-sponsored study with FK228 in T-cell lymphomas

Cancer Therapy - NCI selects SRI to qualify cancer drug candidates for clinical studies

Cell Biology - PML protein may be linked to many cancers

Colon Cancer - Colorectal cancer screening is more complete with colonoscopy than sigmoidoscopy

Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Chinese herbal medicine is popular among breast cancer patients

Coping Techniques - Women with family history of breast/ovarian cancer find support in friends

Diagnostics - Telomerase limited as diagnostic adjunct in cervical cytopathology

Fungal Infection - Clinical factors predict fluconazole resistance/Candida blood infection survival

Gallbladder Surgery - Research emphasizes value of minimally invasive surgery for complex procedures

Germ-Cell Tumors - Herv-K(HML-2) Gag/Env antibodies may indicate treatment response

Group Purchasing - Premier Purchasing to offer Prospera brachytherapy sources

Gynecologic Cancer - Alfa-epoietin can improve anemia in patients with gynecological cancer

Gynecology - Some ovarian intestinal-type mucinous borderline tumors are benign

HIV/AIDS-Related Conditions - Inflammatory and reactive arthropathies more prevalent in HIV infection

HIV/AIDS-Related Disease - Novel therapies developed for treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma

Human Papillomavirus - Study: Breast-milk compound kills warts

Information Technology - Company launches unified platform for eCDM: RAVE 5.0

Kidney Cancer - Radiofrequency ablation spares kidney, kills tumor

Leukemia - ALL survivors bear genetic damage from life-saving chemotherapy

Lung Cancer - FISH analysis of p53 and chromosome 17 has limited prognostic value

Lymphoma - Recurrent syncope can mark Burkitt lymphoma at carotid bifurcation

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Researchers identify occupational exposures that increase NHL risk

Oral Cancer - Relationship seen between oral carcinoma and exposure to tobacco smoke

Ovarian Cancer - Human kallikrein 8 expression is a favorable prognostic marker

Ovarian Cancer - Inhibin alpha shows value in differential diagnosis of ovarian neoplasia

Ovarian Cancer - Lysophospholipid levels are potential disease indicator

Parkinson Disease - Guilford licenses U.S. rights to GPI 1485

Personnel - Ion-channel-target focused company taps Mark J. Suto, PhD

Prognostics - Leptin is an important marker in gynecologic and breast cancers

Prostate Cancer - Postoperative urinary and sexual function are concerns after prostatectomy

Squamous Cell Carcinoma -  Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is unrelated to squamous cell carcinoma

Stem-Cell Transplantation - EBMT Risk Score for CML patients receiving stem cell transplants is validated

Thyroid Cancer - Galectin-3 immunoassay facilitates diagnosis of occult papillary thyroid carcinoma

Wilms Tumor - SIOP trials and studies evaluate the prognosis of Wilms tumor patients

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