"The Changing Face of Breast Cancer: Where We Are, Where We Are Going, and How" - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA - www.mskcc.org

Press Releases

• "Symptom screening plus a simple blood test equals a 20 percent jump in early detection of ovarian cancer" - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA  - www.fhcrc.org
• "Patient's own infection-fighting T cells put late-stage melanoma into long-term remission — without chemotherapy or radiation" - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA  - www.fhcrc.org
• "Acupuncture Reduces Pain and Dysfunction in Head and Neck Cancer Patients after Neck Dissection" - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA - www.mskcc.org
• "Research explains how advanced prostate cancer becomes resistant to androgen-deprivation therapy - Findings suggest androgen production occurs within metastatic prostate tumors" - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA  - www.fhcrc.org

Clinical Guidelines

• "Cetuximab for the treatment of head and neck cancer" - NICE - National Institute For Clinical Excellence, London, UK - www.nice.org.uk
• "Erythropoetin (alpha and beta) and darbepoetin for the treatment of cancer-treatment induced anaemia" - NICE - National Institute For Clinical Excellence, London, UK - www.nice.org.uk

Literature Selection

• Buster JE et al.: "Low-Dose Estradiol Spray to Treat Vasomotor Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial", Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Jun;111(6):1343-1351
• Denny L et al.: "Human Papillomavirus Infection and Cervical Disease in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1-Infected Women", Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Jun;111(6):1380-1387
• Shakiba K et al.: "Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis: A 7-Year Follow-up on the Requirement for Further Surgery", Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Jun;111(6):1285-92

Editorial

• "Changed cytokine patterns in the breast milk during inflammatory breast diseases and their side effects for the newborn"  - Achim Wöckel, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
   
  "Despite a surge of evidence on the benefits of breastfeeding for mothers and the newborns there is a lack of valid and empirical data on lactation-related inflammatory breast diseases, which are also the most common reason for early weaning. Additionally there is also only little research on collateral effects of these puerperal diseases. But inflammatory breast diseases during lactation, like milk stasis or puerperal mastitis, cause a modulation of cytokine levels in breast milk. This imbalance of cytokines in breast milk may have severe consequences for the newborn, which in turn affects the child's development. In our systematic review all important studies and possible health effects for the childs are summarized with regard to different cytokines. Until now proceeding of breastfeeding is recommended also during theses inflammatory breast diseases, but we have to consider these side effects for the newborn in the future and need further investigations to analyze the correlations"
  (Comment on paper:  Wockel A et al.: "Inflammatory breast diseases during lactation: health effects on the newborn-a literature review", Mediators Inflamm. 2008;2008:298760)