Summary of the October 6, 2009 issue of JNCI

Issue 19 of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute includes a study on liver cancer reduction from HBV vaccinations and a study and accompanying editorial on prostate cancer overdiagnosis. This issue also includes a study on SNPs linked with prostate cancer in Japanese men; a study on surgeon training on the breast cancer sentinel node; a study looking at mastectomy decisions among breast cancer patients; and finally a review of the literature on biomarkers for outcome of EGFR-targeted therapy for metastatic colorectal cancer.