New frontiers and old puzzles

Distance Learning: New Frontiers for Solving Old Problems

Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze Umane Italy After a discussion on the use of technology for teaching purposes, the authors present an experiment carried out in Italy and based on the use of e-learning to face the problem of guiding large classes of students for lab activities in basic courses of Statistics. Even though this solution has been adopted to solve a local problem, ...

CNS metastases in breast cancer: old challenge, new frontiers.

Despite major therapeutic advances in the management of patients with breast cancer, central nervous system (CNS) metastases remain an intractable problem, particularly in patients with metastatic HER2-positive and triple-negative breast cancer. As systemic therapies to treat extracranial disease improve, some patients are surviving longer, and the frequency of CNS involvement seems to be incre...

NEW FRONTIERS IN ANGIOGENESIS New Frontiers in Angiogenesis

Genomic medicine: new frontiers and new challenges.

BACKGROUND The practice of personalized medicine has made large strides since the introduction of high-throughput technologies and the vast improvements in computational biotechnology. The personalized-medicine approach to cancer management holds promise for earlier disease detection, accurate prediction of prognosis, and better treatment options; however, the early experience with personalized...

Infantile hemangiomas: new frontiers.

Guest Editorial I t is a very exciting time for clini-cians who are confronted with infantile hemangiomas. So much new information is now available regarding pathogenesis, epidemiology, differential diagnosis, and therapy. These aspects are reviewed in greater detail in the accompanying articles by a group of experienced scientists and clinicians, who help provide a richer and more sophisticate...