eCancer

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Update on Aspirin and Cancer Prevention Professor Jack Cuzick reviews the latest research on the use of aspirin for cancer prevention, as reported at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.
ecancer, May 30, 2012
EURECCA: A Consensus for Rectal Cancer Treatment? Dr. Colette van den Broek discusses the multinational EURECCA study, which pooled data from 6597 patients with rectal cancer to develop European treatment guidelines.
ecancer, May 23, 2012
Treatment Options in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer An expert panel at the 2012 Prostate Cancer Debate in London discusses the evolving treatment options for patients with CRPC and the need for a multidisciplinary approach to optimize survival.
ecancer, May 11, 2012
Recent Advances in Multiple Myeloma Therapy Professors Antonio Palumbo, Meletios Dimopoulos, Jesus San Miguel, Thierry Facon, and Philippe Moreau discuss the important developments in the treatment of multiple myeloma presented at ASH 2011.
ecancer, April 11, 2012
Partial Breast IRT: New Standard for Early Breast Cancer? Dr. Roberto Orecchia reports on the ELIOT study, which suggests that partial breast intraoperative radiation therapy may prove a new standard of care for a large segment of breast cancer patients.
ecancer, December 7, 2011
Multiple Reasons to Attend a Multidisciplinary Congress ECCO and ESMO presidents highlight what to expect from the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress.
ecancer, September 19, 2011
Stereotactic Radiotherapy Blasts Away at Early Lung Cancer Stereotactic radiotherapy has a high impact on overall survival in patients with early lung cancer, but it requires quality-assurance procedures, says Dr. Rafal Dziadziuszko at EMCTO 2011.
ecancer, September 6, 2011
FDG-PET Increases Treatment Efficacy in Lung Cancer Prof Dirk de Ruysscher reports that FDG-PET scans distinguish which parts of the tumor require high-dose radiotherapy, allowing for greater efficacy without increasing toxicity in NSCLC therapy.
ecancer, August 11, 2011
CLL in the Elderly: Is the Game Plan Changing? Prof. Peter Hillmen, an expert in blood cancers, speaks about treatments available for elderly patients with CLL, focusing on options that offer deeper remission vs those that are better tolerated.
ecancer, August 3, 2011
The Shock of Cancer: Helping Patients to Cope Dr. Luzia Travado, an expert in psycho-oncology, discusses how treatment plans can be developed to help patients cope with issues arising from the distress they experience from having cancer.
ecancer, June 7, 2011
Chemoradiotherapy Reduces Recurrence of Bladder Cancer Prof. Nick James reports on his study which showed that combining fluorouracil and mitomycin C as radiosensitizers reduces locoregional recurrence of bladder cancer by 33%.
ecancer, April 11, 2011
CyberKnife: The Cutting Edge in Lung Cancer Prof. Pierre-Yves Bondiau describes this radiosurgery tool, which allows radiation to be targeted very accurately and which tracks tumors as they move with the breathing motions of the lung.
ecancer, March 29, 2011

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