Continuous development of oncology as a science in the last decades and years led to noticeable improvement treatment outcomes for patients with various malignant tumors. Diagnostics, surgery, radiotherapy significantly contributed this improvement, however they cannot be compared progress achieved through advancements our knowledge genetic structure tumors subsequent pharmacology which allowed...

Medical oncologists and patients with advanced cancer struggle to discuss prognosis, goals, options, and values in a timely fashion. As a consequence, many patients die receiving aggressive treatment potentially inconsistent with their fully informed preferences and experience increased symptom burden and distress. The goals of patient oncologist communication include exchanging information, bu...

Specialist oncology pharmacists are being trained in Japan to assist cancer treatment teams. These specialized pharmacists address patients' physical and mental problems in pharmacist-managed cancer care clinics, actively participate in formulating treatment policies, and are beneficial in offering qualitative improvements to patient services and team medical care. However, the effect of outpat...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the male population. Radiotherapy is often used to control the abnormal growth of cancer cells. In radiotherapy treatment the oncologist makes a trade-off between the risk and benefit of the radiation i.e. the task is to deliver the high dose to the cancer cells and minimize the side effects of the treatment. A case based reasoning is developed to ca...

Variability in gross tumour volume (GTV) definition is a major source of systematic error in conformal radiotherapy. This prospective study assesses the role of multidisciplinary collaboration between oncologists and radiologists in defining lung cancer volumes. Twenty patients with non-small cell lung cancer due to receive three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy formed the study population. G...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this investigation was to explicate the content of primary adjuvant treatment consultations in breast oncology and examine the predictive relationships between patient and oncologist consultation factors and patient satisfaction with communication. METHODS The recorded consultations of 172 newly diagnosed breast cancer patients from four Canadian cancer centers were r...