The bureaucratic obstacles that often prevent European cancer patients from joining clinical trials in other Member States came under the spotlight recently in the case of a young woman with melanoma. Download full article
Jaap Verweij, head of medical oncology and an early-phase trials expert at the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam invites you to reappraise the way we are going about improving cancer therapies. Download full article
Better understanding of the different mutations that drive GIST is leading to new paradigms of tailored treatment that break many norms of chemotherapy, especially in management of progression. Download full article
The number of drugs being developed to target specific mutations is rising steadily. But finding which targeted therapies work best for which sets of mutations is proving an elusive goal. Download full article
When confronted with the novel gene technology of the early ’70s, molecular biologist Axel Ullrich posed the question: what use can this be to medicine? Opening the door to translational research Download full article
As founding president of Europa Donna, Gloria Freilich helped transform attitudes towards patient advocacy. She would like to see further progress and advises that her softly softly approach is the way to go. Download full [more]
A minority of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma achieve a complete response to therapy andmost patients have a poor prognosis.A recent randomised phase II trial demonstrated that the addition of high-dose cytarabine to [more]
The addition of hormonal therapy to radiation therapy improves survival inmenwith unfavourable risk prostate cancer.Yet,menwith prostate cancer have higher rates of non-cancer death than the general population andmost will die fromcauses other than their indexmalignancy. [more]
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Some terminally ill cancer patients, seeing only suffering and indignity ahead, want to die at a time and in a manner of their own choosing. But how does legal backing for assisted dying impact on [more]
Patients with stage III non-small-cell lung cancer comprise a heterogeneous population; the role of surgical resection in this setting has been controversial. Albain and colleagues recently demonstrated that trimodality therapy with lobectomy had clinical benefit [more]
Motzer and colleagues presented updated results from a multicentre, phase III trial of sunitinib versus interferon-á as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic renal-cell carcinoma. The observed improvement in overall survival for patients treated with [more]
Patient groups are uniquely placed to challenge fears and misperceptions that hamper prevention and contribute to late diagnoses, poor treatment and the social isolation of patients. Acting locally but using the Internet they are now [more]