International Web-based consultation on priorities for translational breast cancer research.

Background: Large numbers of translational breast cancer research topics have been completed or are underway, but they differ widely in their immediate and/or future importance to clinical management. We therefore conducted an international Web-based consultation of breast cancer professionals to identify the topics most widely considered to be of highest priority.

Methods: Potential participants were contacted via two large e-mail databases and asked to register, at a Web site, the issues that they felt to be of highest priority.

Guidelines for the adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with endocrine-responsive breast cancer: past, present and future recommendations.

Treatment guidelines are useful tools that enable physicians to integrate the latest clinical research into their practices. The large volume of rapidly evolving clinical data in breast cancer has been summarised and incorporated into treatment recommendations by well-known and reliable institutions, including the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, the American Society for Clinical Oncology, the European Society for Medical Oncology and the St. Gallen International Consensus Panel.