2007 April - 7 articles
Some cancer patients use therapeutic massage to reduce symptoms, improve coping, and enhance quality of life. Although a meta-analysis concludes that massage can confer short-term benefits in terms of psychological wellbeing and reduction of some sym...
We assessed population-based trends in incidence and survival rates for epithelial ovarian cancer in Ontario in two time periods. Our population-based study cohort included all women with epithelial ovarian cancer treated initially with abdominal sur...
Oral melphalan and prednisone remain an effective and tolerable treatment for patients with multiple myeloma. For approximately 40 years, this combination has been the standard of care for patients not proceeding to stem cell transplant. Within the l...
Since its discovery in the late 1980s [...]
On its discovery in 1965 by Gold and Freedman in the blood of patients with colorectal cancer [...]
The year 2006 marked 100 years since the death of Pierre Curie. It is therefore appropriate that we remember his life and his work, which was cut short by his untimely death from an accident on the Pont Neuf, Paris, on April 19, 1906. He had already...
This second issue of 2007 finally sees the publication of the first in a series of manuscripts dedicated to the History of Oncology, with a special emphasis, initially at least, on radio-therapeutics. [...]
