Editoriali in Senologia / Editorials in Senology 

• "Tamoxifen and chemopreventive treatment for breast cancer risk reduction" - Bernard Fisher, Operations Center, National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, Pittsburgh, USA
• "Use of hormone replacement therapy following bilateral risk-reducing oophorectomy in women with BRCA1/2 mutations"- Timothy R. Rebbeck, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 
• "Long-term prognosis of patients with isolated local recurrence following conservative surgery and radiotherapy for early breast cancer" - Adri C Voogd , Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• "Axillary Lymph Node Dissection  in Breast Cancer Patients with Sentinel Lymph Node Micrometastases" - Marco Gipponi,  Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, Ospedale San Martino, Genoa, Italy  
• "Breast cancer treatment and sexual function" - Justine J. Speer, William Beaumont Research Institute, Royal Oak, Michigan
• "A HER2/neu vaccine to prevent recurrence in high-risk breast cancer patients" - George E. Peoples, Surgical Oncology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 
• "Adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer and cardiac morbidity" - Sharon Giordano, Department of Breast Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• "HER-2 overexpression as a predictor of outcome in breast cancer patients" - Mariantonietta Colozza, Medical Oncology Division, Azienda Ospedaliera, Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, Perugia, Italy
• "Effects of chemotherapy on cognitive function" - Catherine Jansen, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco, California
• "Concurrent administration of CMF chemotherapy and radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for mammary carcinomas" - Giorgio Arcangeli, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy
• "Polymorphisms in the estrogen receptor alpha gene, mammographic density and breast cancer risk" - Fränzel J.B. van Duijnhoven, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Comunicati stampa in Senologia / Press Releases in Senology

• "Low-dose chemotherapy plus antiangiogenesis drug has activity in advanced breast cancer" - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
• "Two Types of Breast Cancer Treatments Show Similar Benefit" - National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

Selezione di abstracts dalla rivista  "The Breast"  / Selected abstracts from "The Breast" (with permission from Elsevier)

• Bergh J: "Adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer—“one fits all”? 
• Kaufmann M et al.: "Preoperative (neoadjuvant) systemic treatment of breast cancer"
• Kuhl CK et al.: "Management of women at high risk for breast cancer: New imaging beyond mammography"
• Hayes DF: "Prognostic and predictive factors revisited"

Quesiti clinici in Senologia / Clinical Questions in Senology

• "Cancri palpabili occulti alla mammografia e alla ecografia" . risponde Stefano Ciatto, Department. Diagnostic Imaging, Centro per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica, Firenze

Selezione della letteratura in Senologia / Literature Selection in Senology 

• Venturini M et al.: "Dose-Dense Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Early Breast Cancer Patients: Results From a Randomized Trial", J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 Dec 7;97(23):1724-1733
• Evans DG et al.: "Surgical decisions made by 158 women with hereditary breast cancer aged <50 years", Eur J Surg Oncol. 2005 Dec;31(10):1112-8
• Fasih T et al.: "All radial scars/complex sclerosing lesions seen on breast screening mammograms should be excised", Eur J Surg Oncol. 2005 Dec;31(10):1125-8
• Julius T et al.: "MRI and conservative treatment of locally advanced breast cancer", Eur J Surg Oncol. 2005 Dec;31(10):1129-34
• Rahme E et al.: "Association Between Frequent Use of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Breast Cancer", BMC Cancer. 2005 Dec 12;5(1):159 [Epub ahead of print]
• Clarke M et al.: "Effects of radiotherapy and of differences in the extent of surgery for early breast cancer on local recurrence and 15-year survival: an overview of the randomised trials", Lancet 2005 Dec; 366:2087-2106
• Strom EA et al.: "Clinical investigation: Regional nodal failure patterns in breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy without radiotherapy", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Dec 1;63(5):1508-13
• Kroenke CH et al.: "Dietary patterns and survival after breast cancer diagnosis", J Clin Oncol. 2005 Dec 20;23(36):9295-303
• Vorburger SA et al.: "Angiosarcoma of the breast", Cancer. 2005 Dec 15;104(12):2682-8
• Vargas C et al.: "Factors associated with local recurrence and cause-specific survival in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast treated with breast-conserving therapy or mastectomy", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Dec 1;63(5):1514-21
• The Breast International Group (BIG) 1-98 Collaborative Group: "A comparison of letrozole and tamoxifen in postmenopausal women with early breast cancer", N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 2747
• Cobleigh MA et al.: "Tumor gene expression and prognosis in breast cancer patients with 10 or more positive lymph nodes", Clin Cancer Res. 2005 Dec 15;11(24):8623-31
• Giordano SH et al.: "Adjuvant systemic therapy for male breast carcinoma", Cancer. 2005 Dec 1;104(11):2359-64
• Shackleton M et al.: "Generation of a functional mammary gland from a single stem cell", Nature. 2006 Jan 5;439(7072):84-8
• Pignol JP et al.: "First report of a permanent breast (103)Pd seed implant as adjuvant radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Jan 1;64(1):176-181
• Langagergaard V et al.: "Birth outcome in women with breast cancer", Br J Cancer. 2006 Jan 16;94(1):142-6

Prossimi Eventi Senologici internazionali e nazionali / Calendar of Events in Senology 

• 5th International Breast Cancer from Gene to Cure Congress , February 2-4, 2006, Amsterdam - Netherlands
• 23rd Annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference, February 22 - 25, 2006, Miami Beach, FL
• 5th European Breast Cancer Conference, 21 - 25 March 2006, Nice - France

 Seno e Poesia / Breast and Poetry

• "Il Seno In-Cantato" - Antologia di Poesie sul Seno",  a cura di Alfonso Pluchinotta, Editore Crocetti, Milano (pp.308, € 18)

Editoriali in Oncologia / Editorials in Oncology 

• "Prostate brachytherapy and possibility of continued fertility" - Joe Grocela, Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
• "Accuracy of PET/CT in lymph node staging in patients with early-stage cervical cancer" - Maria Picchio, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Institute H S. Raffaele, Milan, Italy
• "Moderate physical activity may help women lower their risk of ovarian cancer" - Sai Yi Pan, Public Health Agency of Canada
• "Use of sequential FDG-PET to predict patient outcome after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in advanced stage ovarian cancer" - Norbert Avril, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine, London 
• "Confronto tra approccio laparotomico e laparoscopico nel trattamento del cancro dell’endometrio: un focus sulla qualità di vita" - Stefano Palomba, Dipartimento di Ostetricia e Ginecologia, Università Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy
• "Expression of Endothelin-1 and prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer" - Laura Boldrini, Department of Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
• "High-dose radiation with concurrent hepatic arterial floxuridine in patients with unresectable intrahepatic malignancies" - Edgar Ben-Josef, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Comunicati stampa in Oncologia / Press Releases in Oncology

• "Computer-Aided Polyp Detection Software in Combination with Virtual Colonoscopy is as Effective as Traditional Optical Colonoscopy" - National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
• "AMN107 Has Potent Activity In Leukemia Resistant to Gleevec" - University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
• "NCI Issues Clinical Announcement for Preferred Method of Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer" - National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

Conferenze e Video in Oncologia / Video and Lectures in Oncology (link)

• "Brain & Spinal Cord Cancers: Diagnosis, Treatment & Rehabilitation"  - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Selezione della letteratura in Oncologia / Literature Selection in Oncology 

• Hamilton W et al.: "What are the clinical features of lung cancer before the diagnosis is made? A population based case-control study", Thorax. 2005 Dec;60(12):1059-65
• Jessup JM et al.: "Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage III Colon Cancer", JAMA. 2005 Dec7; 294(21):2703-711
• Park J et al.: "Dietary fiber intake and risk of colorectal cancer: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies", JAMA. 2005 Dec 14;294(22):2849-57
• Randall ME et al.: "Randomized Phase III Trial of Whole-Abdominal Irradiation Versus Doxorubicin and Cisplatin Chemotherapy in Advanced Endometrial Carcinoma: A Gynecologic Oncology Group Study", J Clin Oncol. 2005 Dec 5; [Epub ahead of print]
• Houvenaeghel G et al.: "Rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap in radical oncopelvic surgery: A safe and useful procedure", Eur J Surg Oncol. 2005 Dec;31(10):1185-90
• Sharma S et al.: "Safety and efficacy of cytoreductive surgery for epithelial ovarian cancer in elderly and high-risk surgical patients", Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Dec;193(6):2077-82
• Aletti GD et al.: "Aggressive surgical effort and improved survival in advanced-stage ovarian cancer", Obstet Gynecol. 2006 Jan;107(1):77-85
• Nanthakumaran S et al.: "Morbidity and mortality rates following gastric cancer surgery and contiguous organ removal, a population based study", Eur J Surg Oncol 2005 Dec 31(10):1141-4
• Ciotti M et al.: "Single or multiple HPV types in cervical cancer and associated metastases", Oncol Rep. 2006 Jan;15(1):143-8
• Levi F et al.: "High constant incidence rates of second cutaneous melanomas", Int J Cancer. 2005 Dec 10;117(5):877-9.
• Mack JW et al.: "Parent and physician perspectives on quality of care at the end of life in children with cancer", J Clin Oncol. 2005 Dec 20;23(36):9155-61.
• Macredmond R et al.: "Screening for lung cancer using low dose CT scanning: results of 2 year follow up", Thorax. 2006 Jan;61(1):54-6