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US ONCOLOGICAL DISEASE 2007 - ISSUE I - MAY 2007 |
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An in-depth, informative review, with supporting website, focusing on the latest clinical developments and advances within US oncology.
Contents:
Contents
Advisory Panel
Foreword
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Foreword
Dawn M Fucillo, MA, RT (R)(T)(QM), CMD
Chairman, American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT)
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Neurological Cancer
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Current Therapies for Metastatic Brain Tumors
Sayana R Thomas, BSc, Deepak Khuntia, MD and Minesh P Mehta, MD Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin
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Current Management of High-grade Astrocytic Neoplasms—Small but Tangible Progress
Renato V La Rocca, MD
Oncologist and Director, Kentuckiana Cancer Institute, Kentucky
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The Role of Radiosurgery in the Management of Brain Metastases
David Roberge, MD Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, McGill University
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State-of-the-art Therapy for Glioblastoma Multiforme
Henry S Friedman, MD James B Powell Jr Professor of Neuro-oncology, Dukes University Medical Center
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Breast Cancer
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Aromatase Inhibitor-associated Bone Loss in Breast Cancer
Peyman Hadji, MD
Head, Department of Endocrinology, Reproductive Medicine, and Osteoporosis, Philipps-Marburg University
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Adjuvant Treatment of Breast Cancer in Older Patients
Sumanta K Pal, MD1 and Arti Hurria, MD2
1. Department of Medical Oncology 2. Director, Cancer and Aging Research Program, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California
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Ovarian Cancer
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Surgical Staging of Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumors
Gautam G Rao, MD1 and John O Schorge, MD2
1. Assistant Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2. Associate Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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Prostate Cancer
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The Use of Doxil® (Caelyx®) for the Treatment of Prostate Cancer—Past, Present, and Future
Christina Voelkel-Johnson, PhD
Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina and the Hollings Cancer Center
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Therapeutic Approach to Hormone-refractory Prostate Cancer
Fred Saad, MD, FRCSC
Director, Urologic Oncology, Chair, Prostate Cancer, and Full Professor of Surgery/Urology, University of Montreal
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Lung Cancer
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Computed Tomography Scanning for Lung Cancer 2007—Notes to Clinicians and Glimpses of the Future
James P Smith, MD1 and Daniel M Libby, MD2
1, 2. Clinical Professors of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University 2. Senior Attending, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
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Image-guided Radiotherapy for Early-stage Medically Inoperable Non-small-cell Lung Cancer
C Wesley Hodge, MD, Wolfgang A Tomé, PhD and Minesh P Mehta, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin
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Pancreatic Cancer
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Advances in Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
M Wasif Saif, MD and Soonmo Peter Kang, MD
Medical Oncology and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Yale University School of Medicine
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Liver Cancer
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The Emerging Synergy between Radioembolization, Systemic Chemotherapy, and Liver Surgery in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Harpreet S Wasan, MD
Consultant in Medical Oncology and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London, and Department of Cancer Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital
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Leukemias & Lymphomas
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Nilotinib in Chronic-phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Philipp le Coutre, MD
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Humboldt University Berlin
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IRIS at Five Years—Still Changing the Face of Long-term Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Therapy
François Guilhot, MD
Head, Department of Oncology, Haematology, and Cell Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Poitiers
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Optimization of Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Richard L Momparler, PhD and Noël J-M Raynal, MSc
Hematology-Oncology Service, Research Center, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal University
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Therapy of Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Hagop M Kantarjian, MD, Guillermo Garcia-Manero and Jean-Pierre Issa
Department of Leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Histone Deacetylase Inhibition in Hematological Malignancies
Edward F Greenberg, BSc1 and James E Bradner, MD2
1. Research Assistant 2. Researcher, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Radiotherapy & Imaging
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Strategies for Image-guided Proton Therapy of Cancer
Reinhard W Schulte, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC)
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Dose Verification System—Radiation Detector for Radiation Therapy
Tina Marie Briere, PhD
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Cancer-related Nutrition
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The Pain of Oral Mucositis
Susan D Bruce, RN, MSN, OCN1 and Annette Quinn, RN, BSN, MSN2
1. Clinical Nurse IV, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh 2. Program Manager, Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Hillman Cancer Center
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Events Diary
Technology & Services
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Corporate Profile
EKR Therapeutics, Inc
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