This Focus article presents a debate between two experts to try to understand more about why younger women with breast cancer tend to have a poorer prognosis than their older counterparts. Breast cancer in young [more]
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent in patients with breast cancer, and African American, Asian and younger women are disproportionally affected. PTSD is associated with adverse effects on psychological and physical health and might be [more]
Mariagrazia De Lisa is a second-year resident at the medical oncology department of the university hospital Ospedali Riuniti delle Marche, in Ancona, Italy. She came top out of 63 other students from 25 countries in [more]
Every patient wants to be cured. But a culture that defines success as cure’ condemns many patients and doctors to failure. What does treatment ‘success’ mean in cancer? Does it only mean curing the cancer? [more]
Researchers now expect that samples obtained from biobanks are accompanied with well-annotated clinical data. Opened in 2010, the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank takes this criterion a step further: researchers obtaining tissues are required to [more]
Fedro Alessandro Peccatori is director of the Fertility and Reproduction Unit at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. He specialises in breast and gynaecological cancers and tumours of young adults, and has particular responsibility [more]
No pathologist can be an expert in every type of cancer. But there is a lot that can be done to greatly improve the accuracy of diagnoses, particularly in rare cancers, as a recent European [more]
An exercise programme can improve patients’ physical ability to function, lift their mood and may even lower their chance of recurrence. Four million people will be living with a diagnosis of cancer in the UK [more]
Do you ever let the death of a patient get to you? In this Focus piece, one cancer surgeon talks about his own experience and argues that shutting down your emotional responses is neither feasible [more]
This editorial looks at how to present statistical information in a way that is easy for readers to interpret and apply, and calls on everyone involved writing educational material and press releases to make a [more]
France’s relatively low profile on the European cancer stage belies a creative and innovative approach to research and care that other countries could learn from. Agnès Buzyn lifts the lid on how French cancer services [more]
Are dysfunctional relations between academia and industry hindering the process of turning progress in our understanding of cancer into truly effective treatments? The business model for developing new cancer drugs is broken and needs replacing [more]