Tanja Badovinac-Crnjevic

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the findings of their Cancer Commission and their recommendations to encourage Latin American stakeholders to redouble their efforts to address this increasing cancer burden and to prevent it from worsening and threatening their societies.

TL;DR: The overall state of health and cancer control in each country is described and additional specific issues for consideration are described: for China, access to care, contamination of the environment, and cancer fatalism and traditional medicine; for India, affordability of care, provision of adequate health personnel, and sociocultural barriers to cancer control.

TL;DR: Overall survival was significantly longer with trastuzumab emtansine versus treatment of physician's choice and the study was terminated according to the protocol.

TL;DR: A retrospective study is an independent validation of the prognostic performance of BCI in a prospective trial, finding that BCI had a strong prognostic effect on RFS in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated with tamoxifen alone or with tamxifen and octreotide.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that adjuvant treatment with aromatase inhibitors can be considered for breast cancer patients who have T-scores less than -2·0 and show that exemestane-a mildly androgenic steroid-might have a less detrimental effect on bone than non-steroidal anastrozole.