German summary onkoserv and HEXAL Oncology 5 years has the ASCO – the world’s largest scientific society of Oncology – at the end of the year, the most significant advances of the previous year together – also for 2009 (ASCO: clinical cancer advances 2009: J Clin Oncol 27 (2009) 6052-6069). In the areas of treatment, prevention and screening Congress lectures and publications are presented, which significantly changed the understanding of a particular tumor or but a major contribution to patient care. Also the largest European society of Oncology, ESMO (European society of medical oncology) has summarized the most important from their perspective events and progress of the last year for the first time this year (ESMO’s round-up of leading reports and analyses from 2009). onkoserv – the independent, daily, German-language information service for Clinical Oncology, announced the results of these two important publications – as usual briefly and succinctly summarized in german -, complemented by links and comments. On the page, subscription to registered subscribers / members requesting German summary as a PDF file.

The registration / membership is absolutely free for doctors in clinic or practice, the registration is done online in a few steps. the only daily independent, German-language information service for Clinical Oncology is onkoserv, the newsletter and database in one. Daily 3 current clinical studies phase II in concise, tabular summary are presented – of course in German language. The tabular representation allows a rapid admission of the presented data, the database easy to use a find again at any time. Since 2002, nearly 6000 studies with German tabular summaries are now alone in the literature database to research. Other features of onkoserv are a newsletter with messages from authorities (FDA, EMEA, RKI, etc.), Associations, research institutions and the industry as well as an always up-to-date database of Congress.