1. How safe are central venous catheters?

   • U. Hess

   EDITORIAL Pages: 191 - 192

2. Supportive care of cancer patients in Dubai

   • P. Shetty
   • Khalil Rizk
   • Aleyamma John

   SUPPORTIVE CARE INTERNATIONAL Pages: 196 - 199

3. Should bisphosphonates be standard therapy for bone pain?

   • A. H. G. Paterson

   SPECIAL ARTICLE Pages: 200 - 204

4. When to treat dehydration in a terminally ill patient?

   • R. L. Fainsinger
   • Eduardo Bruera

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 205 - 211

5. The relationship between parameters of serotonin metabolism and emetogenic potential of platinum-based chemotherapy regimens

   • A. du Bois
   • Werner Vach
   • Hanna Kriesinger-Schroeder

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 212 - 218

6. Oral dolasetron mesilate (MDL 73,147EF) for the control of emesis during fractionated total-body irradiation and high-dose cyclophosphamide in patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

   • A. A. Fauser
   • W. Russ
   • M. Bischoff

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 219 - 222

7. Complications associated with central venous catheters used for the collection of peripheral blood progenitor cells to support high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue

   • B. R. Meisenberg
   • Mary Callaghan
   • Robert McMillan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 223 - 227

8. Mechanical and infective central venous catheter-related complications: a prospective non-randomized study using Hickman and Groshong catheters in children with hematological malignancies

   • E. Biagi
   • C. Arrigo
   • C. Uderzo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 228 - 233

9. Epidemiology of infections in the adult medical intensive care unit of a cancer hospital

   • T. Berghmans
   • F. Crokaert
   • J. P. Sculier

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 234 - 240

10. Relationship between quality of life and mood in long-term survivors of breast cancer treated with mastectomy

    • M. A. Weitzner
    • C. A. Meyers
    • Angele K. Saleeba

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 241 - 248

11. Candidemia in acute leukemia patients

    • P. Ribeiro
    • A. B. Sousa
    • J. Gouveia

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 249 - 251

12. Matching the clinical function and symptom status with the expectations of patients with advanced cancer, their families, and health care workers

    • H. Neuenschwander
    • Eduardo Bruera
    • Franco Cavalli

    SHORT COMMUNICATION Pages: 252 - 256