Editoriali in Senologia / Editorials in Senology 

• "Relationship of regional cerebral blood flow and metabolism with cognitive function and past exposure to chemotherapy for breast cancer" . Dan Silverman, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• "Prophylactic mastectomy and sentinel lymph node surgery" - Judy C. Boughey , Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic , Rochester, MN , USA;  Isabelle Bedrosian, Department of of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center , Houston, TX, USA
• "Aerobic exercise prevents anemia during treatment of breast cancer" - Jacqueline S. Drouin, Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Professions and Studies, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan, USA
• "MR guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery for the Palliation of Pain Caused by Bone Metastases" - Doron Kopelman, Sheba Medical Center, Department of Oncology, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• "Citologia ecoguidata dei linfonodi mammari come forma alternativa di stadiazione" - Stefano Ciatto, Department of. Diagnostic Imaging, CSPO - Istituto Scientifico per la Prevenzione Oncologica, Firenze, Italy
• "Mammary ductoscopy is useful as a direct and accurate method of characterizing intraductal lesions" - Masujiro Makita, Department of Breast Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
• "Predictors of lymph node involvement in women with asymptomatic invasive breast cancers detected through screening mammography" - David Roder, The Cancer Council South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia
• "Predictors of Invasion in Patients With Core-Needle Biopsy-Diagnosed Ductal Carcinoma in Situ" - Erika Resetkova, Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Comunicati stampa in Senologia / Press Releases in Senology

• "Regular exercise and keeping weight in check decreases breast-cancer risk factors in postmenopausal women" - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Linee guida cliniche in Senology / Clinical Guidelines in Senology (link)

• "Familial breast cancer" - update - NICE - National Institute For Clinical Excellence, London, UK

Selezione della Letteratura in Senologia / Literature Selection in Senology 

• Lohrisch C et al.: "Impact on Survival of Time From Definitive Surgery to Initiation of Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer", J Clin Oncol. 2006 Oct 2; [Epub ahead of print]
• Griebsch I et al.: "Cost-effectiveness of screening with contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging vs X-ray mammography of women at a high familial risk of breast cancer", Br J Cancer. 2006 Oct 9;95(7):801-10
• Veronesi G et al.: "Subclavicular recurrence of breast cancer: Does surgery play a role?", Breast. 2006 Oct, 15, 5:649-653
• Husen M et al.: "Two-step axillary operation increases risk of arm morbidity in breast cancer patients", Breast. 2006 Oct, 15, 5: 620-628
• Balic M et al.: "Most early disseminated cancer cells detected in bone marrow of breast cancer patients have a putative breast cancer stem cell phenotype", Clin Cancer Res. 2006 Oct 1;12(19):5615-21
• Hardin C et al.: "The relationships among clinician delay of diagnosis of breast cancer and tumor size, nodal status, and stage", Am J Surg. 2006 Oct;192(4):506-8
• Chiarelli AM et al.: "Influence of patterns of hormone replacement therapy use and mammographic density on breast cancer detection", Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Oct;15(10):1856-62
• Ahn SH et al.: "Health-related quality of life in disease-free survivors of breast cancer with the general population", Ann Oncol. 2006 Oct 9
• Leikola JP et al.: "A Second Radioisotope Injection Enhances Intraoperative Sentinel Node Identification in Breast Cancer Patients without Visualized Nodes on Preoperative Lymphoscintigraphy", Acta Radiol. 2006 Oct;47(8):760-3
• Smith BD et al.: "Postmastectomy radiation and survival in older women with breast cancer", J Clin Oncol. 2006 Oct 20;24(30):4901-7
• Griebsch I et al.: "Cost-effectiveness of screening with contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging vs X-ray mammography of women at a high familial risk of breast cancer", Br J Cancer. 2006 Oct 9;95(7):801-10
• Radan L et al.: "The role of FDG-PET/CT in suspected recurrence of breast cancer", Cancer. 2006 Oct 24

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

• 3rd Asia Pacific UICC Reach to Recovery International Breast Cancer Support Conference, November 7 - November 10, 2006, Mumbai - India
• Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM)- Oncology, Palliative Care, Breast Cancer - November 29 - December 1, 2006, Melbourne, Australia
• 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium - December 14 - December 17, 2006, San Antonio, Texas,  United States

Editoriali in Oncologia / Editorials in Oncology 

• "Association between occupational lead exposure and the risk of brain cancer mortality" - Edwin van Wijngaarden, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, NY, USA
• "The aggressive potential of small renal cell carcinoma increases dramatically beyond a tumor diameter of 3 cm" - Mesut Remzi, Department of Urology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• "11C-choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography is highly sensitive for primary and metastatic transitional cell carcinoma" - Ofer Gofrit, Department of Urology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
• "Melanoma metastases in sentinel lymph node could be detected in imprint smears utilizing a rapid intraoperative protocol, potentially eliminating the need for an additional surgery" - Vinod Shidham, Department of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
• "Increased prevalence of malignant melanoma and skin carcinoma before the diagnosis of Parkinson disease" - Jørgen H. Olsen, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark
• "Safety and efficacy of pulmonary resection after low and high dose neoadjuvant radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy" - Robert J Cerfolio, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
• "Is there a place for HPV 16 and 18 viral load quantification in clinical routine practice?" - Xavier Carcopino, Laboratoire de Virologie, Hopital de la Timone, Marseille, France
• "Impatto della linfadenectomia sistematica aortica e pelvica nelle pazienti con carcinoma ovarico macroscopicamente confinato alla pelvi" - Roldano Fossati, Laboratory of Clinical Cancer Research, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy

• "Chronic intraprostatic inflammation may lead to a greater risk of developing prostate cancer -  Sanjay Gupta, Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

Notizie in Oncologia / Oncology News

• Dalla ricerca Merck Sharp&Dohme, EMEND (Aprepitant), il primo antagonista della sostanza P a livello dei recettori NK1

Comunicati stampa in Oncologia / Press Releases in Oncology

• "Long-term Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Show Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Curative: 89 Percent of Men Disease-Free Eight Years Later"  - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
• "Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer Face Health Issues" - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
• "Virtual Colonoscopy Effective in Preventing Colorectal Cancer" - The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
• "NCI Releases Preliminary Data on Genetic Susceptibility for Prostate Cancer" - National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

Selezione della Letteratura in Oncologia / Literature Selection in Oncology 

• Hardell L et al.: "Tumour risk associated with use of cellular telephones or cordless desktop telephones" - World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2006, 4:74
• Arrieta O et al.: "Colchicine delays the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with hepatitis virus-related liver cirrhosis", Cancer 2006 Oct 15;107(8):1852-1858
• "MR-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) for the palliation of pain in patients with bone metastases--preliminary clinical experience", Ann Oncol. 2006 Oct 9
• Aletti GD et al.: "Is time to chemotherapy a determinant of prognosis in advanced-stage ovarian cancer?", Gynecol Oncol. 2006 Oct 3
• The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Investigators. "Survival of patients with stage I lung cancer detected on CT screening",  N Engl J Med 2006;355:1763-1771
• Kassouf W et al.: "Relevance of extracapsular extension of pelvic lymph node metastasis in patients with bladder cancer treated in the contemporary era", Cancer. 2006 Oct 1;107(7):1491

Selezione della Letteratura / Literature Selection

• "Should HPV vaccines be mandatory for all adolescents?" - The Lancet, 2006 Oct 7; 368; 1212  - Tutte le adolescenti di 11-12 anni dovrebbero essere vaccinate contro lo Human Papillomavirus (HPV), principale agente eziologico del carcinoma della cervice uterina
• Meeker JD et al.: "Maternal exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and pregnancy outcome among couples undergoing assisted reproduction", Hum Reprod. 2006 Oct 19 - Le donne esposte al fumo passivo durante l'infanzia presentano un aumentato rischio di aborti spontanei in età adulta
• Lacey J et al.: "Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Cancer Risk in the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study Cohort", J Natl Cancer Inst 2006; 98: 1397-1405 - L'uso prolungato di trattamenti ormonali sostitutivi  aumenta il rischio di sviluppare carcinomi delle ovaie in donne in postmenopausa