The ESMO Clinical Recommendations (CR) are clinical guidelines intended to provide the user with a set of requirements for a basic standard of cancer care.

Each CR offers vital, evidence-based information for physicians, including the incidence of the malignancy, diagnostic criteria, staging of disease and risk assessment, treatment plans and follow-up

ESMO Clinical Recommendations, May 2009: Vol. 20, Supplement No. 4

ESMO Clinical Recommendations: using the easier and faster approach to oncology guidelines

N. Pavlidis, H. Hansen, and R. Stahel

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Primary breast cancer	V. Kataja and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
Locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer	F. Cardoso and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
BRCA in breast cancer	J. Balmaña, O. Díez and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Malignant glioma

R. Stupp and F. Roila

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Newly and relapsed epithelial ovarian carcinoma	S. Aebi and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
Non-epithelial ovarian cancer	N. Colombo, M. Peiretti and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
Cervical cancer	C. Haie-Meder, P. Morice and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
Endometrial carcinoma	M. M. Baekelandt and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Esophageal cancer	M. Stahl and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Gastric cancer	C. Jackson, D. Cunningham and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Pancreatic cancer	S. Cascinu and S. Jelic	FULL TEXT	PDF
Hepatocellular carcinoma	S. Jelic	FULL TEXT	PDF
Biliary cancer	F. Eckel and S. Jelic	FULL TEXT	PDF
Primary colon cancer	E. Van Cutsem and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Familial colorectal cancer risk	H. F. A. Vasen, A. E. van der Meulen–de Jong, W. H. de Vos tot Nederveen Cappel and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Rectal cancer	B. Glimelius and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Anal cancer	R. Glynne-Jones, J. Northover and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Advanced colorectal cancer	E. Van Cutsem and J. Oliveira	FULL TEXT	PDF
Gastrointestinal stromal tumours	P. G. Casali, L. Jost, P. Reichardt, M. Schlemmer and J.-Y. Blay	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Non-small-cell lung cancer	G. D'Addario and E. Felip	FULL TEXT	PDF
Small-cell lung cancer	M. Sørensen and E. Felip	FULL TEXT	PDF
Malignant pleural mesothelioma	R. A. Stahel and W. Weder	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Prostate cancer	A. Horwich, C. Parker and V. Kataja	FULL TEXT	PDF
Invasive bladder cancer	J. Bellmunt, S. Albiol and V. Kataja	FULL TEXT	PDF
Renal cell carcinoma	B. Escudier and V. Kataja	FULL TEXT	PDF
Testicular seminoma	H.-J. Schmoll, K. Jordan, R. Huddart, M. P. Laguna, A. Horwich, K. Fizazi and V. Kataja	FULL TEXT	PDF
Testicular non-seminoma	H.-J. Schmoll, K. Jordan, R. Huddart, M. P. Laguna, A. Horwich, K. Fizazi and V. Kataja	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Multiple myeloma	J.-L. Harousseau and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Acute myeloblastic leukemia in adult patients	M. Fey and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia	B. Eichhorst, M. Hallek and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Chronic myelogenous leukemia	M. Baccarani and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Hodgkin's lymphoma	A. Engert, D. A. Eichenauer and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma	H. Tilly and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Gastric marginal zone lymphoma of MALT type	E. Zucca and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Primary cutaneous lymphoma	R. Willemze and M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF
Newly diagnosed and relapsed follicular lymphoma	M. Dreyling	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck	L. Licitra and E. Felip	FULL TEXT	PDF
Nasopharyngeal cancer	A. T. C. Chan and E. Felip	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Cutaneous malignant melanoma	R. Dummer, A. Hauschild and G. Pentheroudakis	FULL TEXT	PDF
Soft tissue sarcomas	P. G. Casali, L. Jost, S. Sleijfer, J. Verweij and J.-Y. Blay	FULL TEXT	PDF
Osteosarcoma	S. Bielack, D. Carrle and P. G. Casali	FULL TEXT	PDF
Ewing's sarcoma of the bone	M. Paulussen, S. Bielack, H. Jürgens and P. G. Casali	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Differentiated thyroid cancer	F. Pacini, M. G. Castagna, L. Brilli and G. Pentheroudakis	FULL TEXT	PDF
Neuroendocrine bronchial and thymic tumors	K. Oberg and S. Jelic	FULL TEXT	PDF
Neuroendocrine gastroenteropancreatic tumors	K. Oberg and S. Jelic	FULL TEXT	PDF
Cancers of unknown primary site	E. Briasoulis, N. Pavlidis and E. Felip	FULL TEXT	PDF

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Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting	J. Herrstedt and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in cancer patients	D. Scrijvers and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Hematopoietic growth factors	J. Crawford, C. Caserta and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Management of febrile neutropenia	F. Marti Marti, M. H. Cullen and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Management of cancer pain	L. Jost and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Management of oral and gastrointestinal mucositis	D. E. Peterson, R.-J. Bensadoun and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF
Cancer, fertility and pregnancy	G. Pentheroudakis, N. Pavlidis and M. Castiglione	FULL TEXT	PDF
Management of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients	M. Mandalà, A. Falanga and F. Roila	FULL TEXT	PDF

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The ESMO Guidelines Working Group acknowledges and thanks the people who have acted as reviewers for these ESMO Clinical Recommendations

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The members of the Guidelines Working Group have made the following disclosures

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Clinical Recommendations are not designed to replace extensive clinical practice guidelines or review articles, but rather to describe common standards of care.

The ESMO CR are updated annually by the ESMO Guidelines Working Group, who manages and supervises them, while the ESMO Faculty members perform reviews and provide further expert opinion.

Clinical guidelines are important for the development of oncology as a specialty and serve to achieve many important goals:

• reach and maintain a high common standard of care in medical practice for cancer patients and help clinicians to offer the best care
• disseminate knowledge by supporting the translation into many languages
• support negotiations with politicians, administrators and insurance companies regarding what level of care should be made available
• help patients to find information on the therapies they are undergoing