After years of relying on 5FU, colorectal cancer clinicians now have a wealth of targeted therapies and combination protocols to choose from. The question is, what to use in which patients and when? Download full [more]
If Europe is to ensure that the latest therapies can be made available to all cancer patients who might benefit, getting maximum value from every euro spent on health will be essential. But who is [more]
The story of how breast care in Europe moved from one-size-fits-all mutilating mastectomy towards a model of care tailored to the individual, stressing breast conservation and delivered by multidisciplinary breast teams is one that workers [more]
Colonoscopy screening has the potential to save thousands of lives, but only if the public is prepared to go along with it. Polish journalist Pawel Walewski won the ESO Best Reporter Award 2007 for his [more]
The European School of Oncology was set up in 1982 to help prevent needless death and suffering by educating Europe’s young cancer doctors. ESO looks to a future where all patients are treated by specialist [more]
Results of new research show that high-precision radiotherapy, such as radiosurgery, represents an alternative to conventional irradiation for painful spinal metastases in selected patients with a favourable survival prognosis. Download full article
Findings from a recent study indicate that the novel Goff symptom index is a first step in identifying women at high risk of having ovarian cancer. Further evaluation is required, however, before it is widely [more]
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In the second part of our series on Living with the consequences, survivors of head and neck cancer talk about the social isolation and despair of living with mutilated faces and struggling to talk, chew [more]
Romania’s forgotten cancer patients erupted onto the public scene when they staged a demonstration outside the Ministry of Health in May. Things will never be the same again… Download full article
According to the media version, an individual who develops cancer embarks on a battle’ those who win are cured, while those who lose die. This simplistic story overlooks the many whose cancer is brought [more]
When he’s not writing ESMO guidelines or caring for patients, Nicholas Pavlidis spends time boosting the meagre training received by many of Europe’s young medical oncologists. In a field of medicine where treatments can easily [more]
To give top-quality care an oncologist must understand the slightest changes in tumour characteristics. But when it comes to understanding human reactions and emotions, some scarcely know where to start. Doctors who want to explain [more]