EDITORIAL
Difficulties to take a decision for treatment because the drugs recommended in guidelines are not reimbursed by the insurance company
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
When guideline-recommended drugs are not reimbursed by the insurance, the clinicians face significant challenges in treatment decision-making....
REVIEW
Calitatea vieții pacienţilor cu cancer în timpul tratamentului oncologic activ şi în cadrul îngrijirilor paliative
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Acest scurt review analizează definiția şi măsurarea calității vieții pacienților oncologici, atât în cursul terapiei active antitumorale, cât şi în timpul îngrijirilor paliative....
EDITORIAL
Lung cancer news
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
We have selected some news of the last two months related to lung cancer, published online in Medscape, Cancer Connect and IASLC....
EDITORIAL
Integrating quality of life into clinical practice
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) defines survivorship as follows: “survivorship focuses on health and the physical, psychological, social and economic issues affecting people after the end of the primary treatment for cancer”(1)....
CASE REPORT
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor – case report
Şerban Tunaru, Cristina-Raluca Iorga, Alexandru C. Grigorescu, Victor Strâmbu, Cristian Iorga
Tumorile miofibroblastice inflamatorii se înscriu în categoria patologiilor rare, cu afectarea predominantă a copiilor şi adulţilor tineri....
REVIEW
2024: ten years of progress in EGFRm NSCLC
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Cancerul pulmonar rămâne principala cauză a deceselor determinate de cancer la nivel global, cancerul pulmonar cu celule non-mici (NSCLC) fiind cel mai prevalent subtip. ...
EDITORIAL
Palliative care as a specialty or a subspeciality (competence)?
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Palliative care is explicitly recognized under the human right to health. It should be provided through person-centered and integrated health services that pay special attention to the specific needs and preferences of individuals(1). ...
PALLIATIVE CARE
Palliative care at the end of life, according to main medicine societies of the world
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
În acest review, am reprodus principalele recomandări ale celor mai importante societăţi medicale din întreaga lume privind îngrijirile paliative, în special la sfârşitul vieţii....
EDITORIAL
ESMO news – May 2024
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
In medical oncology, the deepening understanding of the mechanisms of cancer cell development has determined the appearance of a very large number of drugs involved in various mechanisms of cancer cell proliferation....
EDITORIAL
The importance of publications in non-ISI journals
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
The objective analysis of ISI (Web of Science) journals reveals, in addition to benefits, some shortcomings that disadvantage some valuable authors....
REVIEW
Some important trials regarding the digestive cancers presented at ASCO and ESMO congresses with impact in current medical practice
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Acest scurt review se referă la principalele studii prezentate la congresele ASCO şi ESMO din 2023, având ca subiect cancerele digestive. Din analiza acestor studii rezultă că chimioterapia, în specia...
REVIEW
Analysis of abstracts sent to the 2023 Congress of the National Society of Medical Oncology
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Acest review include o analiză sumară a rezumatelor trimise la Congresul Societăţii Naţionale de Oncologie Medicală din anul 2023. Astfel, din cele 49 de rezumate trimise, 26 au fost prezentări de caz, 12 au fost review-...
EDITORIAL
A new and important finding about the immunotherapy of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Recently, the researchers have obviously sought for the introduction of immunotherapy alone or in combination and after the failure of a first-line immunotherapy. Novel treatment approaches are needed to overcome innate ...
IMAGES IN ONCOLOGY
Ultrasonography in necrotic choroidal melanoma
Mihai Adrian Păsărică, Christiana Diana Maria Dragosloveanu, Paul Filip Curcă, Alina Ciocâlteu, Alexandru C. Grigorescu
Melanomul uveal este cea mai frecventă tumoră malignă intraoculară la adulţi, cu originea în tractul uveal al globului ocular. Necroza spontană a melanoamelor coroidale este foarte rară, dar unele melanoame uveale po...
EDITORIAL
Ethics in medical scientific societies
Alexandru C. Grigorescu
This topic is almost never addressed by those involved or by some external observatories. In this short review of the problem, I want to bring arguments for two important problems: the internal organization of scientific medical societies and the sponsorships of pharmaceutical companies. They are very importa...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH