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ecancerNews Highlights from August 2013

Published: 8 Aug 2013

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Prof Gordon McVie - ecancer and European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Founding editor, Prof Gordon McVie comments on some of the top ecancerNews stories from July and August, including: Real world study shows glargine has little effect on cancer,

Women's height linked to cancer risk,

'Intelligent knife' tells surgeon if tissue is cancerous,

Afatinib approved by FDA for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer,

and Prof Maurice Staquet, first director of the Data Centre of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), passes away.

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