Nine representative centers of the oncology working party of the French respiratory society (Groupe d'Oncologie de la Société de Pneumologie de Langue Française) participated.
Within oncology, working with patients who are suffering or at end-of-life has been recognized repeatedly as stress-inducing, yet there is little agreement on what specifically nurses may experience as a result of their work.
Eight new HIV-positive diagnoses were made at oncology work-up.
Thirty-seven patients (4.2%) were HIV-positive, of whom eight (22%) were diagnosed at oncology work-up.
Of 37 HIV-positive patients, eight (22%) were diagnosed at oncology work-up, all with CD4 counts < 200 cells/μL.
HIV testing was considered part of the oncology work-up if performed between 90 days before and 90 days after the cancer diagnosis date.
HIV testing was considered as related to oncology work-up if performed within 90 days before and 90 days after the cancer diagnosis date, based on local clinical experience (SP and CA).
During the same meeting, the results of the German Gynecological Oncology Working Group (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gynäkologische Onkologie, or AGO) study were also presented, demonstrating the feasibility of a dose-dense biweekly protocol [ 10].
The Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology working group has recently recommended the use of amino acid PET imaging for brain tumor management in addition to magnetic resonance imaging [3, 4].
We analyzed the intracranial status and disease progression after salvage SRT retrospectively, in accordance with "Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology Working Group of the American Society of Clinical Oncology" (RANO) criteria [ 22].
8 The Neuro-oncology Working Group NOAA) of the German Cancer Society conducted a comparable randomized Phase III trial to compare a 1-week-on/1-week-off TMZ schedule at 100 mg/m with dose modification and involved field RT (54 60 Gy) in elderly patients with newly diagnosed anaplastic astrocytoma or GBM (NOA-08).
