Rectal cancer: ESMO Clinical Recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up B. Glimelius & J. Oliveira On behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital, Uppsala and Department of Oncology and Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Service of Medical Oncology, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisb...

The purpose of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Oncology Nurse Navigator Role Delineation Study was to examine the job-function activities of the oncology nurse navigator, thus providing an understanding of this unique role. The Role Delineation Advisory Committee consisting mainly of oncology nurse navigators was formed to provide content expertise to Applied Measurement Professionals, which...

O1 Revealing cancer initiating cells in metastatic melanomas by harnessing the host′s anti tumor humoral immune mechanisms Beatrix Kotlan, Gabriella Liszkay, Gyorgy Naszados, Judit Olasz, Szabolcs Horvath, Klara Eles, Miri Blank, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Laszlo Gobor, Laszlo Toth, Orsolya Csuka, Maria Godeny, Miklos Kasler, Francesco M Marincola Molecular Immunology and Toxicology, National Institute ...

1Division of Hematology-Oncology, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital/Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; 2Division of Hematology-Oncology, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; 3Division of Hematology-Oncology, The Children’s Medical Center/Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH; 4Children’s Oncology Group, Statist...

Cancer constitutes a huge burden on societies in countries with any level of economic development. Prostate cancer is the first most diagnosed cancer of men in developed countries and the forth one in developing countries in terms of incidence rate. It is also the third incident cancer of men in Iran along with a prevalence of about 10,000 cases. Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a...

M. Brandão1, C. Camacho2, C. Faustino3, N. Sousa4, J. Mauricio2 Serviço de Oncologia Médica, Instituto Portugues de Oncologia Centro do Porto (IPO-Porto), Porto, PORTUGAL Medical Oncology Department, Instituto Portugues de Oncologia Centro do Porto(IPO-Porto), Porto, PORTUGAL Medical Oncology/ Hematology, Instituto Portugues de Oncologia Centro do Porto, Porto, PORTUGAL Medical Oncology/ Hemato...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

Affiliations: Sektion Pneumologie Innenstadt und Thorakale Onkologie, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik 5, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and Dept of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Oncology, University of Munich and Thoracic Oncology Centre Munich, Munich, Germany. The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of Me...