Mr Lloyd is angry! His elderly mother is getting no treatment for her metastatic lung cancer, and he doesn’t want to hear what the doctors and nurses are saying… …A different approach by a new [more]
Cancer is not the first thing that springs to mind when one thinks about conflict and refugees, but bear with me and I will explain why this is such a problem now. Back in the [more]
Acute skin reactions associated with radiotherapy can be distressing and can lead to treatment interruption. Anticipating, assessing and managing the problem according to best evidence can make a big difference. Radiotherapy-related toxicity occurs because of [more]
Progress in understanding resistance and learning how to combine and sequence therapies most effectively is being stifled because specimens donated by patients, and related data, are being hoarded and not shared. Peter McIntyre reports. There [more]
Repurposing established drugs for oncology patients offers the potential to deliver cheaper and faster drug development. This could help close the widening gap between patient expectations and healthcare budgets, as the cost of medical anticancer [more]
Are we optimistic or just complacent? For its 75th anniversary, India’s Tata Memorial Centre invited the research world to take a fresh look at whether we are on track for defeating cancer. Vineet Gupta reports. [more]
Doctors get cancer too, but not many of them choose to make a documentary film about the experience. Vasiliki Michopoulou talked to some who did, and asked them why? It’s October, 2004, and Nikos Karvounis, [more]
The Regional Education Meeting on Supportive Care in Cancer Patients for Eastern European and Balkan region will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 2-3 December 2016, at Hotel Falkensteiner. The course is held under the auspices of the [more]
The WIN 2016 Symposium program will elaborate the overarching theme Innovative Approaches to Improve Cancer Patient Outcomes in four plenary sessions, divided over the two days of the meeting: New tools for early diagnosis, selecting therapies and monitoring [more]
Being an oncologist in Romania is an extreme job. Being a patient with cancer in Romania is an extreme experience. We have 250 oncologists to care for at least 500,000 people with cancer (the figures [more]
Cancer diagnosis seems associated with an increased risk of some mental health disorders, and increased use of psychiatric medications, according to a Swedish cohort study published on JAMA Oncology. The study by Donghao Lu and [more]
Dear Alberto, We received the last Cancer World. Congratulations, it’s very nicely formatted, informative, well written and covers topics from a perspective rarely seen in “usual” specialised journals. We were particularly interested by the article [more]
A new model of active surveillance (AS) for patients with low-risk prostate cancer proved to be effective in helping clinicians to appropriately select and follow patients preventing the risk of overtreatment, according to the results [more]