Editoriali in Senologia / Editorials in Senology 

• "Radiotherapy omission after breast-conserving surgery in elderly women with breast cancer" - Pauline Truong, Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver Island Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Victoria, BC, Canada
• "Proliferation: the most prominent predictor of clinical outcome in breast cancer" - Christos Sotiriou, Functional Genomics and Translational Research Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• "Sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer can be falsely positive" - Ira J Bleiweiss, Lillian and Henry Stratton/Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
• "Breast cancer treatment in octogenarians" - Haim Gutman, Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv University, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel
• "Using an instruction video or palpation aid did not improve the effectiveness of breast examination in detecting tumors" - Karsten Münstedt, Institute of Medical Psychology and Sociology of the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
• "Screening younger women with a family history of breast carcinoma leads to improved survival" - Gareth Evans, Breast Cancer Family History Clinic, Nightingale Centre, Withington Hospital, South Manchester University Hospital Trust, Manchester, UK
• "Hypofractionated radiotherapy and hormonal therapy without surgery for breast carcinoma in elderly patients" - Adel Courdi, Radiotherapy Department, Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, Nice Cedex, France
• "Boost radiotherapy  in addition to surgery for breast-conserving treatment for DCIS" - Guenther Gruber, Institute of Radiation Oncology, Kantonsspital, Aarau, Switzerland 
• "Conservative management of non-bloody nipple discharge" - Mary Dillon, Department of Surgery, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
• "Association between type 2 diabetes mellitus and adverse characteristics of breast cancer at presentation" - Ido Wolf, The Institute of Oncology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Notizie dalle Aziende in Senologia / News from Healthcare Companies

• Trastuzumab: approvata anche in Italia l’indicazione nel trattamento del carcinoma mammario HER-2-positivo in fase iniziale" - Roche

Selezione della letteratura in Senologia / Literature Selection in Senology 

• Ciatto S et al.: "Computer-aided detection (CAD) of cancers detected on double reading by one reader only", The Breast 2006 Aug: 15 (4), 528-532
• Markopoulos C et al.: "Paraffinomas of the breast or oleogranulomatous mastitis—a rare entity", The Breast 2006 Aug: 15(4), 540-543
• Hershman D et al.: "Delay in initiating adjuvant radiotherapy following breast conservation surgery and its impact on survival", Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Aug 1;65(5):1353-60
• Chung A et al.: "Preoperative FDG-PET for axillary metastases in patients with breast cancer",
  Arch Surg. 2006 Aug;141(8):783-8
• Maibenco DC et al.: "Significance of micrometastases on the survival of women with T1 breast cancer", Cancer. 2006 Aug 9;107(6):1234-1239
• Villeneuve PJ et al.: "Mortality among Canadian women with cosmetic breast implants", Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Aug 15;164(4):334-41
• Schmeler KM et al.: "Prophylactic Bilateral Salpingo-Oophorectomy Compared With Surveillance in Women With BRCA Mutations", Obstet Gynecol 2006 108: 515-520
• van der Velden AP et al.: "The value of magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosis and size assessment of in situ and small invasive breast carcinoma", Am J Surg. 2006 Aug;192(2):172-8

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

• 5th European Conference: Perspectives in Breast Cancer, September 14 - 16, 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 12th Annual Perspectives in Breast Cancer, October 6-7 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 5th European Conference: Perspectives in Breast Cancer, October 14 - October 16, 2006, Amsterdam - Netherlands
• Il carcinoma della mammella: chirurgia e immagine corporea, 16-17 ottobre, 2006, Rapallo - Italia
• Workshop sul tumore Mammario - 27-28 Ottobre 2006, Roma

Editoriali in Oncologia / Editorials in Oncology 

• "Bone mineral density changes in prostate cancer patients on androgen deprivation therapy" - Juan Morote, Department of Urology, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Autonoma University School of Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
• "Outcomes and survival in older men with localized prostate cancer" - Richard M. Hoffman, New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM, USA
• "La termoablazione a radiofrequenze delle neoplasie polmonari" - Marcello Carlo Ambrogi, University of Pisa, Cardiac and Thoracic Department, Pisa, Italy
• "Differences in lung cancer management and survival between the UK and other Countries" - Andrea Imperatori, Centro di Ricerca in Chirurgia Toracica, Università dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy
• "Possibili future strategie di screening per il carcinoma della cervice uterina" - Guglielmo Ronco, Centre for Cancer Prevention (CPO), Turin, Italy
• "Exercise reduces the incidence and mortality of colorectal cancers" - Andrew Haydon, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
• "Screening colonoscopy in very elderly patients" - Otto Lin, Gastroenterology Section, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, USA
• "Preoperative hyperfractionated and accelerated radiotherapy schedule (HART) in locally advanced resectable rectal cancer (LARC)" - Philippe A. Coucke, Department of Radiation-Oncology, Hopital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• "Single Agent Arsenic trioxide in the treatment of newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia" - Vikram Mathews, Department of Haematology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
• "Sopravvivenza dei pazienti con linfoma di Hodgkin in relazione al tipo morfologico" - Claudia Allemani, Department of Preventive and Predictive Medicine, Analytical Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, Milano, Italy
• "Partial vs radical nephrectomy for clear cell renal cell carcinoma of 4-7 cm" - Atreya Dash, Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
• "Whole-brain radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery in patients with brain metastases" - Hidefumi Aoyama, Department of Radiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
• "Survivors of childhood cancer and use of health care services" - Amanda Shaw, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Comunicati stampa in Oncologia / Press Releases in Oncology

• "New Method of Gene Therapy Alters Immune Cells for Treatment of Advanced Melanoma; Technique May Also Apply to Other Common Cancers" - National Institutes of Health (NIH), U. S. Department of Health and Human Services

Selezione della letteratura in Oncologia / Literature Selection in Oncology 

• Brenner H et al.: "Does a negative screening colonoscopy ever need to be repeated?", Gut. 2006 Aug;55(8):1145-50
• Pontisso P et al.: "Progressive increase of SCCA-IgM immune complexes in cirrhotic patients is associated with development of hepatocellular carcinoma", Int J Cancer. 2006 Aug 15
• Capussotti L et al.: "Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and resection for initially irresectable colorectal liver metastases", Br J Surg. 2006 Aug;93(8):1001-6
• Lagergren J et al.: "Carbonated soft drinks and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma: a population-based case-control study", J Natl Cancer Inst. 2006 Aug 16;98(16):1158-61
• Maggioni A et al.: "Randomised study of systematic lymphadenectomy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer macroscopically confined to the pelvis", Br J Cancer. 2006 Aug 29
• Porpiglia F et al.: "Transperitoneal versus extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: experience of a single center", Urology. 2006 Aug;68(2):376-80
• D'Amico V et al.: "Six-month androgen suppression plus radiation therapy compared with radiation therapy alone for men with prostate cancer and a rapidly increasing pretreatment prostate-specific antigen level", J Clin Oncol. 2006 Sep 1;24(25):4190-5
• Mauro AM et al.: "Prevention of early postoperative seizures in patients with primary brain tumors: preliminary experience with oxcarbazepine", J Neurooncol. 2006 Aug 31