Volunteering in medical oncology

Volunteering children for medical experiments.

Medical Oncology

Objective: Present how the SSG register of bone and soft tissue sarcoma patients has an important role for ensuring quality control and as a basis for research projects. Methods: The SSG Register was initiated in 1986 and more than 5000 patients from sarcoma centers in Finland, Norway and Sweden have been accrued. Patient data was registered at the participating institutions. For in-depth studi...

Medical physics in Current Oncology

Medical physics can be generally defined as a field in which applied physics techniques are used in medicine. Traditionally, medical physics deals chiefly with the use of ionizing or non-ionizing radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. In radiation therapy, ionizing radiation is used to treat a wide variety of cancers through external-beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy. Medical phy...

Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology

Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are routinely used in the adjuvant treatment of women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer. Patients who receive AIs have an increased risk of bone loss and arthralgia compared with those treated with tamoxifen. In addition to the effects of AIs, the population of women with early breast cancer has a high prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) insuf...

European society of medical oncology.

Sessions covered metastatic breast cancer, cachexia in non-small-cell lung cancer, recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma, and melanoma.