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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 

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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 

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H-J. Schmoll, Halle, Germany 

H. C. Schouten, Maastricht, The Netherlands 

G. Schwartsmann, Porto Alegre, Brazil 

K. C. Soo, Singapore 

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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 

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J. Zalcberg, Melbourne, Australia

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