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US ONCOLOGICAL DISEASE 2006 -JUNE 2006 |
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US Oncological Disease 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
Foreward
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Foreward
Karen J Stanley, RN, MSN, AOCN, FAAN Immediate Past President, Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
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News Round Up
Regulatory Issues
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Reimbursement Issues for Oncology Drugs
Henry Dummett Head Analyst, Pharmaceutical Pricing & Reimbursement Analysis Service, Global Insight
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Diagnostics – New Technology
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer and Melanoma
Joseph J Bennett, MD Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Hospitals
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Radiation Oncology
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Systemic Targeted Radionuclide Therapy—Positioned for a Take-off
Paul E Wallner, DO, FACR, FAOCR Senior Vice President, 21st Century Oncology, Inc and Board of Chancellors, American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO)
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Advances in Radiation Therapy
Daniel Low Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology and Director, Division of Medical Physics, Washington University School of Medicine
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Lung Cancer
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Current Strategies in the Treatment of Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Edward S Kim, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Reviewing the Epidemic of Lung Cancer
Robert James Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP Professor of Surgery, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Breast Cancer
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Any Progress in 2006 in Breast Cancer in the Elderly?
Matti S Aapro Executive Director, International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) & President, Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC)
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Taxane Chemotherapy—Advances in Treatment for Breast Cancer
Debra K Frye, RN, BSN, OCN, CCRP Research Nurse Manager, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Trastuzumab as an Adjuvant Therapy for HER-2-Positive Breast Cancer
Mariantonietta Colozza, MD Assistant Professor, S.C.Oncologia, Azienda Ospedaliera Perugia, Italy
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Colorectal & GL Cancer
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Screening for Colorectal Cancer in 2006—Advantages and Limitations of the Different Screening Options
John H Bond, MD Chief, Gastroenterology Section, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
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Use of Plasma Octreotide Levels to Guide Sandostatin® LAR Dosing
John Lyons, MD and Eugene A Woltering, MD, FACS Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
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Pancreatic Cancer
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Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Pancreatic Cancer
Robert C Moesinger, MD Assistant Professor in the Section of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
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Updates and Controversies in the Adjuvant Treatment of Pancreas Cancer
Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Ohio State University-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus.
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Prostate Cancer
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Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
Adam S Feldman, MD, and Douglas M Dahl, MD Chief Resident in Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Assistant Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Hematology
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Childhood Leukemias—Diagnosis, Treatment and New Agent Testing
E Anders Kolb, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Radioimmunotherapy - A New Approach in the Management of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Timothy M Illidge Professor, Targeted Therapy and Oncology, Christie Hospital, Manchester
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Surgical Oncology
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Minimally Invasive Surgery for Colorectal Cancer—An Update
David E Stein, MD Chief, Division of Colorectal Surgery and Assistant Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine
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Hypercalcemia
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Randomized, Double-blind, Phase II Trial of Gallium Nitrate Compared with Pamidronate for Acute Control of Cancer-Related Hypercalcemia
Frédérique Cvitkovic, MD1, Jean-Pierre Armand, MD,and Michèle Tubiana-Hulin, MD2, Jean-François Rossi, MD3, Raymond P Warrell, Jr, MD4
1. Centre Rene Huguenin, Saint Cloud, France,
2. Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France,
3. Centre Paul Lamarque, Montpellier, France, 4. Memorial, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Diary
Technology & Services Section
Reference Section
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Updates and Controversies in the Adjuvant Treatment of Pancreas Cancer
Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, The Ohio State University—James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute in Columbus
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Breast Cancer and Melanoma
Joseph J Bennett, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Hospitals
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Screening for Colorectal Cancer in 2006—Advantages and Limitations of the Different Screening Options
John H Bond, MD
Chief, Gastroenterology Section, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota
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Lung Cancer
Robert James Cerfolio, MD, FACS, FCCP
Professor of Surgery, Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Trastuzumab As An Adjuvant Therapy For HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
Mariantonietta Colozza MD
SC Oncologia, Azienda Ospedaliera, Perugia Italy
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Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
Adam S Feldman, MD1 and Douglas M Dahl, MD2
1. Chief Resident in Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital
2. Assistant Professor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School and Assistant in Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Current Strategies in the Treatment of Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Edward S Kim, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic and Head and Neck Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Childhood Leukemias—Diagnosis, Treatment, and New Agent Testing
E Anders Kolb, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Pancreatic Cancer
Robert C Moesinger, MD
Assistant Professor in the Section of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
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