Who would step in to care for your patients if you had to be away from work for several weeks? Calling in a locum tenens oncologist may be a good solution.

s from the 2nd IMPAKT Conference are available at: http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/suppl_4 Save the date: IMPAKT Breast Cancer Conference 5-7 May 2011, with the pre-conference Early-career oncologist training course 4 and 5 May 2011.

The discovery of diverse driver mutations in lung cancer has heralded a new era of personalized medicine in thoracic oncology, with targeted therapies approved for specific subgroups of patients. The increasing number of patient subgroups that may respond to targeted therapy has resulted in a greater reliance upon effective and increasingly complex diagnostics, which must be interpreted in an i...

Gregg, a 64-year-old man, has a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents with a 2-month history of cough and a recent episode of hemoptysis. A chest x-ray film reveals a right lung mass, and computed tomography (CT) of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis confirms a right middle lobe mass with no evidence of metastatic disease. Lung biopsy confirms non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and results of f...

Hypothyroidism is a common health issue worldwide with varying clinical manifestations. We report a woman who experienced an incomplete abortion and undiagnosed hypothyroidism who was referred to the oncologist with the suspicion of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasm (GTN). A 29-year-old woman with incomplete abortion was referred to an oncologist for possible GTN due to persistent a...