The principle of involving patients in decisions about their own care is no longer very controversial. The question is how you put that into practice when every option carries a level of uncertainty, patients may [more]
Ending the overtreatment of women with DCIS will require enough women to have the courage and insight to demand something better. Tiffany OCallaghan won a Best Cancer Reporter Award for opening up the debate with [more]
The impact cancer and cancer treatment can have on a persons sex life can cause physical, emotional and relationship difficulties. This overview describes the many problems that can be triggered, and a step-wise approach to [more]
If detected early, 80/90% of head and neck cancers can be cured. Yet lack of awareness means that two out of three cases are picked up late. The Make Sense campaign takes a message of [more]
Online communities can help patients learn about and weigh up the options open to them. Where enough patients are involved, they are also helping to shape those options, opening up new opportunities for accelerating research [more]
Well-documented biorepositories are essential for cancer research. Currently, major biobanks are located in the developed world, which represents the minority global population; however, countries with low-resource settings contribute more than 50% of the global cancer [more]
Adel Araf is a clinical oncologist who trained in Ain Shams University, Cairo, and is now working as a specialist medical oncologist in Dubai Hospital, in the UAE. He leads a group of young oncologists [more]
Clinicians are being increasingly called on to assume hospital management roles. This Editorial looks at an initiative designed to address this need and asks whether professional societies need to introduce management skills into their CME [more]
We wont improve cancer care until we know more about how well we are doing and how alternative approaches compare. It sounds obvious, but its not happening, says the real David Cameron Something in the [more]
Oncologists put their faith in evidence-based guidelines. But when the treatment is multidisciplinary, who decides on the evidence and how? ECCOs new Guidelines Forum has come up with a plan. Clinicians in most medical specialities [more]
The emotional and psychological impact of being diagnosed and treated for cancer can be at least as severe as the toll the disease and treatment takes on a patient’s physical health. Distress – the range [more]
Nobel laureate Jim Watson is calling on the cancer community to take a long hard look at what has been achieved by blocking the molecular signals that drive individual cancers Sixty years after Jim Watson [more]