Ovarian cancer represents the 4-th reason of cancer related death in women, the majority of patients being diagnosed in advanced stages of the disease, (III-IV). The loco-regional advanced ovarian cancer should be considered a chronic disease, with multiple evolutionary relapses and where the adjuvant treatment is mandatory.The treatment of the disease is multidisciplinary and the oncologist is...

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of 119 consecutive patients undergoing autologous fat grafting for oncologic head and neck reconstruction from January 2005 to July 2014. Patient demographics, radiation history, surgical history, tumor pathology, operative factors, postoperative course, and oncologic assessments were analyzed. (Table 1) The primary outcome was oncologic recurrence,...

The value of cancer care has emerged at the center of a national discourse on fiscal responsibility and resource allocation. The cost of cancer care is rising at a higher pace than any other area of health care. As we struggle to address this unsustainable rise in cancer expenditures, oncology providers are forced to examine our practice patterns and our contributions to the overall health care...

BACKGROUND Apples have commonly been described as a healthy food. To understand better their role on risk of cancer at several sites, we analyzed data from multicenter case-control studies conducted between 1991 and 2002 in Italy. PATIENTS AND METHODS The studies included 598 patients with incident cancers of the oral cavity and pharynx, 304 of the oesophagus, 460 of the larynx, 1953 of the c...

Patients recently diagnosed with cancer require information from their oncologist to further educate themselves about their disease, their course of action, side effects, and possible treatment plans and options. However, disagreements on the information discussed in these meetings indicate that patients and physicians leave with different ideas of the content of their discussions, leading to c...