Rectal cancer treatment has evolved during the past 40 years with the use of a standardized
surgical technique for tumour resection: total mesorectal excision. A dramatic reduction in …

Background Cancer patients are 1.4 times more likely to be unemployed than healthy
people. Therefore it is important to provide cancer patients with programmes to support the …

EUROCARE-4 analysed about three million adult cancer cases from 82 cancer registries in
23 European countries, diagnosed in 1995–1999 and followed to December 2003. For each …

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of death due to cancer causing
death in Europe, accounting for more than 200,000 deaths per year. Prognosis strongly …

Background: Denmark has poorer 5-year survival rates than many other Western European
countries, and cancer patients tend to have more advanced stages at diagnosis than those …

Colorectal cancer mortality has been declining over the last two decades in Europe,
particularly in women, the trends being, however, different across countries and age groups …

Objective: To estimate the number of deaths among cancer patients diagnosed in Great
Britain that would be avoidable within 5 years of diagnosis if the mean (or highest) survival …

The role of dietary and other lifestyle factors in colorectal cancer recurrence and survival is
largely unknown. We conducted a review to summarize the evidence from epidemiologic …

Introduction To improve prognosis and quality of lung cancer care the Danish Lung Cancer
Group has developed a strategy consisting of national clinical guidelines and a clinical …

Objective To examine the scientific evidence and the risk of second primary cancers in
women diagnosed with a first primary breast cancer. Methods The literature was searched in …