The challenge for St Gallen
In mid-March 2007, the breast cancer world will again converge on the beautiful Swiss town of St Gallen, for what will be the 10th Anniversary Conference on the Primary Therapy of Early Breast Cancer. Download [more]
March 2007
Aron Goldhirsch: dogmatically anti-dogma
To find out what makes cancers tick and work out how best to treat them, oncology must continually reinvent itself, applying rigorous methodology to interpret the results of welldesigned and accurately reported studies. So says [more]
Don’t sideline the guidelines
Many patients are still being let down by a failure to follow clinical guidelines. It’s all very well to blame know-it-all doctors, but if the guidelines are hard to access and tricky to use, and [more]
No-name heroes can save Europe billions
European countries struggle to fund new cancer drugs which bring benefits at a high price. Meanwhile billions of euros are wasted, say researchers, because doctors prescribe branded drugs when a generic equivalent is just as [more]
You need to divorce to become good friends
Hernán Cortés-Funes scored a victory for medical oncology when he helped convince Spain to become the first European country to grant the discipline specialist status. A bitter split with radiotherapy dating from that time has [more]
What they never taught you at medical school
Interest in addressing cancer patients’ emotional and psychological needs is far outstripping access to training all over the world. Now the International Psycho-Oncology Society and the European School of Oncology have clubbed together to fill [more]
Does a new model improve decisions about mismatch-repair genetic testing and Lynch syndrome identification?
A new predictive model developed by clinical geneticists in Edinburgh offers a useful tool for physicians making decisions relating to genetic testing, although its clinical application in patients with colorectal cancer for the identification of [more]
Is breast conservation a reasonable option for women with BRCA-associated breast cancer?
A recent study has shown that women with BRCA mutations are as likely to achieve local control with breast-conserving treatment as women without mutations, but have increased long-term risk of ipsilateral and contralateral breast cancer. [more]
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No one told me I had a choice
The right of every patient to play a full role in decisions relating to their treatment remains more of an aspiration than a reality, according to a recent survey of breast cancer patients. For the [more]
Savings lives through changing systems and practices
There is no secret about the steps needed to improve cancer survival and revolutionise the patient experience. But change is a challenge for professionals and managers alike. The first ever CancerWorld conference focused on this [more]