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Annals of
Oncology
Volume 19 No. 8 August 2008
Original articles: Temsirolimus in metastatic renal cell carcinoma
Cetuximab with FUFOX in untreated patients with
advanced colorectal cancer
QoL and comorbidity as prognostic determinants
in NSCLC
Reviews: Targeting Src in breast cancer
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Annals of Oncology
Official Journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology and
the Japanese Society of Medical Oncology
editor-in-chief:
D. J. Kerr, Oxford, UK
associate editors
M. S. Aapro, Genolier, Switzerland
J. O. Armitage, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
P. Boyle, Lyon, France
K. Fizazi, Villejuif, France
R. Labianca, Bergamo, Italy
H. McLeod, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
L. Påhlman, Uppsala, Sweden
M. Pfreundschuh, Hamburg/Saar, Germany
C. J. A. Punt, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
V. Raina, New Delhi, India
N. Saijo, Tokyo, Japan
N. Thatcher, Manchester, UK
J. B. Vermorken, Edegem, Belgium
D. A. Vorobiof, Johannesburg, South Africa
H. Yoshikawa, Tsukuba, Japan
editorial board
K. K. Antman, New York, USA
J-P. Armand, Villejuif, France
J. Baselga, Barcelona, Spain
M. Bendandi, Pamplona, Spain
C. Bokemeyer, Hamburg, Germany
G. Bonadonna, Milan, Italy
F. Cabanillas, Houston, Texas, USA
C. J. Castro, Bogota, Columbia
A. S. Coates, Sydney, Australia
J. M. Connors, Vancouver, Canada
H. Cortés-Funes, Madrid, Spain
D. Cunningham, Sutton, UK
S. Daryanani, Caracas, Venezuela
C. Dittrich, Vienna, Austria
L. H. Einhorn, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
E. A. Eisenhauer, Kingston, Canada
S. Filipovic, Nisˇ, Serbia
B. Glimelius, Uppsala, Sweden
A. Goldhirsch, Milan, Italy
H. H. Hansen, Copenhagen, Denmark
K. Hatake, Tokyo, Japan
W. Hiddemann, Munich, Germany
D. K. Hossfeld, Hamburg, Germany
A. M. Hughes, Macclesfield, UK
C. Ishioka, Sendai, Japan
P. Jacobs, Cape Town, South Africa
J. A. Jankowski, Leicester, UK
Annals of Oncology is devoted to the rapid circulation of scientific communications
concerning oncology, particularly medical oncology. Its character,
however, is multidisciplinary, in reflection of the proliferation of activities
and interests globally and contributions on clinically oriented laboratory
research, surgery and radiotherapy are assured by the presence of representatives
of these disciplines on the Editorial Committee and Board.
Annals of Oncology is covered in C.A.B. International, Current Clinical Cancer, Current
Contents/Clinical Medicine®, Current Contents/Life Sciences, Elsevier BIOBASE/Current
Awareness in Biological Sciences, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, IBIDS, Index Medicus/
MEDLINE, The International Monitor in Oncology, Medical Documentation Service,
Science Citation Index® and Science Citation Index Expanded.
editor emeritus
F. Cavalli, Bellinzona, Switzerland
CME editor
R. Midgley, Oxford, UK
Y. Kakehi, Kagawa, Japan
N. Katsumata, Tokyo, Japan
S. B. Kaye, Sutton, UK
H. M. Khaled, Cairo, Egypt
C-H. Köhne, Dresden, Germany
P. A. Kosmidis, Athens, Greece
H. Kunitoh, Tokyo, Japan
T. Le Chevalier, London, UK
J. S. Macdonald, New York, USA
F. Mandelli, Rome, Italy
G. Masera, Monza, Italy
P. Mauch, Boston, Masachusetts, USA
R. J. Mayer, Boston, Masachusetts, USA
M. Middleton, Oxford, UK
H. Minami, Kobe, Japan
V. M. Moiseyenko, St Petersburg, Russian
Federation
F. M. Muggia, New York, USA
Y. Nagata, Kyoto, Japan
T. Naoe, Nagoya, Japan
T. Ngoma, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
K. Nishio, Osaka, Japan
K. Öberg, Uppsala, Sweden
A. Ohtsu, Kashiwa, Japan
P. Parikh, Mumbai, India
G. J. Peters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M. Piccart, Brussels, Belgium
executive editor: Lewis Rowett
editorial office: Annals of Oncology, Via Luigi Taddei 4, CH-6962 Viganello-Lugano, Switzerland
H. M. Pinedo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M. Ranson, Manchester, UK
R. Rosell, Badalona, Spain
A. Roth, Geneva, Switzerland
P. Rougier, Boulogne, France
E. K. Rowinsky, Branchburg,
New Jersey, USA
M. Saghatchian, Villejuif, France
M. Sasako, Nishinomiya, Japan
W. Scheithauer, Vienna, Austria
H-J. Schmoll, Halle, Germany
H. C. Schouten, Maastricht, The Netherlands
G. Schwartsmann, Porto Alegre, Brazil
K. C. Soo, Singapore
C. N. Sternberg, Rome, Italy
S. Tjulandin, Moscow, Russian Federation
Y. Tokuda, Isehara, Japan
M. Tonato, Perugia, Italy
T. Tursz, Villejuif, France
C. Vallejos Sologuren, Lima Peru
E. Van Cutsem, Leuven, Belgium
A. T. Van Oosterom, Leuven, Belgium
M. Venturini, Genoa, Italy
E. E. Vokes, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J. Zalcberg, Melbourne, Australia

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