Introduction Clinical pharmacology in the United Kingdom can be said to have come of age in the 1970s. Most teaching hospitals have departments of clinical pharmacology, and several universities have separated it from medicine in the final graduating examination so that medical students have to pass in clinical pharmacology in order to graduate. It is a recognized clinical speciality within the...

In this review, we examine the trends in cancer incidence, mortality and survival in the last decade, using published data from the Singapore Cancer Registry in the period 1998 to 2009. While overall cancer incidences have remained stable, overall cancer mortality rates have declined for both genders. Thus, it is not surprising that there was an improvement in cancer survival. A steady decrease...