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US ONCOLOGY REVIEW 2006 – DECEMBER 2005 |
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Business Briefing: US Oncology Review 2006 will bring together leading industry experts in each specialized sector within oncology, providing our readers with comprehensive information on the latest innovations and developments.
The publication will be produced with a supporting website, containing technical and specifying information from leading drug therapy and device suppliers in the US oncology market.
Contents:
Contents
Advisory Panel
Foreword
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Foreword - Matti S Aapro
Matti S Aapro, MD, IMO President, Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and Executive Director, International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)
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Current Issues
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Treatment Strategies and Practice Guidelines in Geriatric Oncology
Hans Wildiers, MD, PhD Belgian National Representative, International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG)
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Radiation Oncology
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Modern Radiotherapy - Exploiting Technology Integration
Michael B Sharpe, PhD Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Radiation Medicine Program, University Health Network (UHN) – Princess Margaret Hospital
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Breast Preserving Therapy with Single Fraction Intraoperative Radiotherapy
David W Ollila, MD1, and Carolyn I Sartor, MD2 Departments of 1. Surgery; and 2. Radiology Oncology, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
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Radioactive Microspheres for Liver Cancers
Andrew S Kennedy, MD Fellow of the American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO)
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Combined External Beam Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy for the Management of Prostate Cancer
Mark Hurwitz, MD Director, Regional Program Development, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber/Brigham & Women’s Cancer Center at Harvard Medical School
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Clinical Introduction of Image-guided Radiotherapy and Cone Beam Computed Tomography
Bruno Sorcini, PhD Project Leader, Image-guided Radiotherapy (IGRT), Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska University Hospital
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Advances in Image-guided Radiotherapy - The Future is in Motion
Peter H Cossmann, PhD Head of Medical Physics and Co-Director, Institute for Radiotherapy, Hirslanden Klinik Aarau
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Intra-operative Radiotherapy for Early Breast Cancer
Frederik Wenz, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology, Mannheim Medical Center, University of Heidelberg
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Realtime Method to Locate and Track Targets in Radiotherapy
Patrick A Kupelian, MD and Arul Mahadaven, MD M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando and The Cleveland Clinic
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Modulated Radiotherapy—Current Status and New Developments
Cedric X Yu, DSc, FAAPM Professor and Director, Medical Physics Division, University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolisation for the Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Drs Eleni Liapi, MD, and Jean-Francois Geschwind, MD The Russell H Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Image-guided Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Colorectal Hepatic Metastases - Long-term Survival Outcomes
Riccardo Lencioni, MD Associate Professor of Radiology, Department of Oncology, Transplants, and Advanced Technologies in Medicine, University of Pisa
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Radiofrequency Ablation—A New Treatment Option for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients
Damian E Dupuy, MD Director of Tumor Ablation, Rhode Island Hospital and Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown Medical School
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GI Cancer
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New Advances in the Chemotherapy of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Edward Chu, MD Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and Chief of the Section of Medical Oncology, Yale University School of Medicine
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Breast Cancer
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Targeting the Tumor—Translating Genetic and Molecular Profiling into Clinical Reality
Francisco J Esteva, MD, PhD1,2 and Gabriel N Hortobagyi, MD, FACP1 1. Department of Breast Medical Oncology and 2. Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Bone Metastases in Breast Cancer
Allan Lipton, MD Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University
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Controlling Breast Cancer
Leslie Laufman, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
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Cryoablation of Early-stage Breast Cancer
Helena R Chang, MD, PhD and Raquel Prati, MD Professor of Surgery and Director, and Research Fellow, Revlon/UCLA Breast Center, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
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Ductoscopy-guided and Conventional Surgical Excision
Seema A Khan, MD Department of Surgery Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
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Preventing Premature Death from Breast Cancer
László Tabár and Peter B Dean Medical Director, Department of Mammography, Falun Central Hospital, Sweden, and Senior Radiologist, Breast Imaging Section, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Hematology
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Radioimmunotherapy—A New Approach in the Management of Non-Hodgkin
Lymphoma Timothy M Illidge, MD, PhD, FRCR, FRCP Professor, Targeted Therapy and Oncology, Christie Hospital, Manchester
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Cognitive Effects of Cancer Therapies
Sue Sumpter, RN, MS Patient Services Manager, Oregon Chapter, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)
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Brain Cancer
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Glioblastoma Multiforme - Past, Present, and Future
Andrew B Lassman, MD1 and Eric C Holland, MD, PhD1–3 Departments of 1. Neurology; 2. Surgery (Neurosurgery); and 3. Cancer Biology & Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Prostate Cancer
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The Case for the Role of Chronic Inflammation in the Development of Prostate Cancer
Ganesh S Palapattu, MD,1 Angelo M DeMarzo, MD, PhD,1,2,3 and William G Nelson, MD, PhD1,2,3 Departments of 1. Urology, 2. Oncology and 3. Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Urologic Cancer
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Pediatric Urologic Oncology
Hsi-Yang Wu, MD, and Fernando A Ferrer, MD Director, Pediatric Urology Research, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and Director, Pediatric Urology, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
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Lung Cancer
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Mediastinal Endoscopic Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration
Peter Vilmann, MD, DSc Consultant Surgeon and Head of Endoscopy, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Gentofte University Hospital
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Technology & Services
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The Power of Dynamics
3D Line Medical Systems
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Corporate Fact Sheet
Nucletron Corporation
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