May 2008 Oncology News International

Cover Story

• Father of tamoxifen a Brit to the core

• Oncologists must make time for fertility issues

• The flap over flat polyps: How common are they and how significant to the patient?

DEPARTMENTS

Focus on Colon Cancer

• Chemoprevention of polyps now a reality

• Zoledronic acid ups PFS in younger early-stage pts

News & Analysis

• Imaging biomarker can predict early treatment response in malignant glioma

Focus on Breast Cancer

• Study of mammography in older women stirs up controversy

• Breast cancer vaccine shows survival benefit in subset of low HER2 expressors

Focus on Hematology

• Strong nilotinib responses in imatinib-failed CP-CML

• NCCN greenlights nilotinib for imatinib-resistant CML patients

Focus on Lung Cancer

• No overall survival benefit for dose-intense regimen in SCLC