Fear of losing hospital revenues from hospitalizations due to chemotherapy toxicity translates into pressure to give patients with poor prognoses less-than-optimal chemotherapy. Medscape Medical News
Adolescent daughters of mothers with breast cancer express fears that they also will develop the disease. Nurses can play an important role in helping them. Oncology Nursing Forum
In a reminder of how much a once-heralded area of cancer research has crumbled, a former Duke oncologist and his colleagues issued their eighth study retraction late last week. Reuters Health Information
A 61-year-old man presenting with eccrine carcinoma of the chin is treated with primary reconstruction using the submental artery flap. ePlasty, Open Access Journal of Plastic Surgery
Sequential vs combination chemotherapy? Bevacizumab? Ixabepilone? Dr. Martine Piccart offers her perspectives on treatment for metastatic breast cancer, with particular focus on quality of life. Medscape Hematology-Oncology
