PET CT imaging is now an integral part of oncology for diagnosis, staging and treatment monitoring.

Annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Orlando, Florida, 13 to 17 May 2005

Pediatric oncology is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in children.

Some examples in this group are the Gynecologic Hospitals, or Maternities, Children Hospitals, Geriatric Hospitals, and Oncology Institutes.

Importantly, it was the first time ever that the FDA included in their approval of an oncology treatment a quality of life claim.

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are cancer cells (found within tumors or hematological cancers) that possess characteristics associated with normal stem cells, specifically the ability to give rise to all cell types found in a particular cancer sample.

The 13 nuclear medicine and oncology centres operated by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission continue to provide facilities to more than a third of a million patients per year.

Yesterday, the National Cancer Institute announced a new program called the Physical Sciences and Oncology, where physicists, mathematicians, are brought in to think about cancer, people who never approached it before.

And we're entering the era of personalized oncology, the ability to leverage all of this data together, analyze the tumor and come up with a real, specific cocktail for the individual patient.

Now as I was training in clinical medicine and hematology and oncology and stem cell transplantation, what we had instead, cascading through the regulatory network at the FDA, were these substances arsenic, thalidomide and this chemical derivative of nitrogen mustard gas.

In the fight against childhood cancer, this concept evolved into what is now the Children s Oncology Group (COG), which unites more than 8,000 experts at more than 200 leading children s hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe.

And the last slide I want to show you is from I was again, this swami that I studied with for so many years, and I did a combined oncology and cardiology Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia medical school a couple of years ago.