491 Lisa Guzman, RN, APN, CHPN, AOCN®, is an advanced practice nurse at Monroe Medical Oncology Clinic in Harvey and Tinley Park, IL, an instructor in the School of Nursing at Ivy Tech Community College in Gary, IN, and director of Blue Skies Hospice in Hammond, IN; Mark Kozloff, MD, is a doctor of oncology at Monroe Medical Oncology Clinic and an associate professor in the School of Medicine a...

Molecular imaging is commonly used to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Nuclear medicine offers cutting-edge procedures instruments, computers radiopharmaceuticals for various diseases, including oncology indications. The detailed images provided by positron emission tomography (PET) can accurately image biochemical or physiologic/pathologic phenomena.

PURPOSE Review existing studies and provide new results on the development, regulatory, and market aspects of new oncology drug development. METHODS We utilized data from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), company surveys, and publicly available commercial business intelligence databases on new oncology drugs approved in the United States and on investigational oncology drugs to estim...

Corresponding author: Jerzy W. Mituś MD, PhD Department of Surgical Oncology Centre of Oncology Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute Krakow Branch 11 Garncarska St 31-115 Krakow, Poland Phone: +48 12 422 49 28 Fax: +48 12 423 10 76 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Surgical Oncology, Centre of Oncology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute, Krakow, Poland 2 Department of A...

A.M.M. Eggermont1, V. Chiarion-Sileni2, J.-. Grob3, R. Dummer4, J.D. Wolchok5, H. Schmidt6, O. Hamid7, C. Robert8, P.A. Ascierto9, J.M. Richards10, C. Lebbé11, V. Ferraresi12, M. Smylie13, J.S. Weber14, M. Maio15, C. Konto16, R. Karra Gurunath17, V. De Pril18, S. Suciu19, A. Testori20 Direction, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus Grand Paris, Villejuif, FRANCE Melanoma Oncology Unit, IOV-IRCCS, Padua...

1 Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, New York University Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA 3 Department of Radiation Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 4 Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA 5 Depar...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain consensus on priorities for oncology nursing research in the United Kingdom.
. DESIGN A three-round online Delphi survey.
. SETTING Oncology nurses were invited via the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) database. Patient participation was invited through patient organizations.
. SAMPLE 50 oncology nurses and 18 patients.
. METHODS Eligible and ...

ÇIĞDEM USUL AFŞAR1, FERYAL KARACA2, MERAL GÜNALDI3, İSMAIL OĞUZ KARA4, MELEK ERKIŞI4, BERKSOY ŞAHIN4, BERNA BOZKURT DUMAN5, SEMRA PAYDAŞ4, VEHBI ERCOLAK6 1Ministry of Health, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology, Istanbul 2Adana Numune Education and Research Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Adana 3Bakirkoy Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital...