A systematic review of chemotherapy trials in several tumour types was performed by The
Swedish Council of Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU). The procedures for the …

BACKGROUND Large, prospective, randomized trials with long term follow‐up are required
to obtain an unbiased evaluation of the significance of resection margins in patients with …

Purpose To compare the effect of therapy with anastrozole versus a combination of fulvestrant
and anastrozole in women in first relapse of endocrine-responsive breast cancer. Patients …

Purpose: Tamoxifen has long been the drug of choice in adjuvant endocrine therapy of
steroid hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, and it still remains important due to its well-…

One hundred fifty-five patients, laparotomized because of colorectal cancer, were retrospectively
evaluated with special attention given to the natural course of untreated synchronous …

Adjuvant tamoxifen treatment increases recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS)
in early breast cancer, although in premenopausal patients the number of studies …

Tissue factor (TF)‐mediated protease‐activated receptor (PAR)‐2 signaling is associated
with a promigratory, invasive and proangiogenic phenotype in experimental models of breast …

Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy is an established staging method in early breast
cancer. After a negative biopsy, most institutions will not perform a completion axillary …

In a population-based, matched case-control study from the South Swedish Health Care
Region, which has the highest risk for melanoma in Sweden, the relation between the use of …

BACKGROUND The traditional surgical treatment for primary malignant melanoma has
often been a wide excision with a margin of about 5 cm. Since the risk of local recurrences is …