Volume 2, Number 3 (May/June 2004)      FREE FULL TEXT IN PDF FORMAT

Bench to Bedside

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Pathophysiology of Bone Metastases: How This Knowledge May Lead to Therapeutic Intervention
Allan Lipton, MD

Division of Oncology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania

With peer viewpoints by James R. Berenson, MD, Institute for Myeloma and Bone Cancer Research, Los Angeles, California, Robert Dreicer, MD, FACP, Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, and E. David Crawford, MD, Section of Urologic Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center. Denver, Colorado

abstract full text 490 kb

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Managing the Toxicity of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
Arnel M. Pallera, MD, and Lee S. Schwartzberg, MD, FACP

The West Clinic and Baptist Cancer Institute, Memphis, Tennessee

With peer viewpoints by Thomas C. Shea, MD, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Stephen J. Forman, MD, Division of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California

abstract full text 319 kb

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Prevention and Management of Cardiotoxicity From Antineoplastic Therapy
Asher Chanan-Khan, MD, Sridhar Srinivasan, MD, and Myron S. Czuczman, MD

Roswell Park Cancer Institute and School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, State -University of New York at Buffalo

With peer viewpoints by Lazaros J. Lekakis, MD, Marianne Davies, APRN, and John R. Murren, MD, Department of Medical Oncology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and Joseph Sparano, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York

abstract full text 234 kb

Original Research

271

 

The Financial Burden of Cancer: Estimates From a Study of Insured Women With Breast Cancer
Ahsan M. Arozullah, MD, MPH, Elizabeth A. Calhoun, PhD, Michael Wolf, PhD, MPH, Denise K. Finley, BA, Karen A. Fitzner, PhD, Elizabeth A. Heckinger, BA, Nicolle S. Gorby, BA, Glen T. Schumock, PharmD, MBA, and Charles L. Bennett, MD, PhD, MPP

VA Chicago Healthcare System, West Side and Lakeside Divisions, Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine, and the Center for Pharmaco-economic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago; VA Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Divisions of Hematology/Oncology and General Medicine of the Department of Medicine, the Department of Urology, the Center for Healthcare Studies, and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

abstract full text 159 kb

Clinical Trials

267

 

Clinical Trials in Supportive Care
Current clinical trials in the management of treatment-related bone loss

full text 52 kb

How We Do It

283

 

Withdrawal of Ventilatory Support From the Dying Adult Patient
Lisa Marr, MD, and David E. Weissman, MD

Division of Neoplastic Diseases and Related Disorders, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

full text 130 kb

How We Say It

290

 

Medical Decision-Making: A Medical Oncologist Speaks to His Father
Peter A. Beatty, MD, FACP

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin

full text 47 kb

Observations

220

 

European Cancer Deaths in Decline

full text 32 kb

247

 

A Practice Management Administrator Worries About the New Medicare Bill

full text 35 kb

288

 

New Study to Probe Effects of Methionine on Brain Cancer

full text 29 kb

Books

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A Small “Must Read” Book for Oncology Physicians, Nurses, and Patients

Cicely Saunders’ Watch With Me: Inspiration for a Life in Hospice Care (Mortal Press, Sheffield, 2003)

full text 39 kb

Letters to the Editor

200

 

Clarifying the Use of Erythropoietic Agents
Robert E. Smith, Jr., MD

South Carolina Oncology Associates, Columbia, South Carolina

full text 74 kb

Reader Services

190

 

Guide for Authors

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