New drugs being approved for treatment of patients with cancer are providing an average of only 2.5 months of extra life, a leading researcher has told the World Oncology Forum (WOF). Tito Fojo, Professor of [more]
Global cancer programmes and projects must pay greater attention to national priorities and structures when they offer support to developing countries, says the doctor responsible for efforts to reduce women’s cancer in Zambia. Sharon Kapambwe [more]
The other day someone asked me what it feels like living, day in day out, with a cancer. I’ve been thinking about the answer to that question since. I don’t really think I have a [more]
Princess Dina Mired, President-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is calling on the international cancer community to change the way it supports developing countries. Princess Dina who was Director of the King [more]
“I absolutely hate the assumption that cancer is too complicated for us to act. In fact probably cancer care and control is much less complicated than running the infrastructure in Mumbai, or London or Manhattan.” [more]
Swiss drugmaker Roche confirmed on Monday October 30th the withdrawal from the «positive list» of drugs reimbursed in Greece of cobimetinib, used to treat melanoma in adults in combination with vemurafenib, after the government imposed [more]
Robert Yates from the Chatham House policy institute has called on the oncology community to join the global campaign for universal health coverage as the best way of ensuring that governments allocate sufficient resources to [more]
Day two of ABC-Lisbon featured a pioneer in metastatic breast cancer advocacy, Musa Mayer, who gave the ABC Award lecture. Mayer told the history of how the “silent voices” of women with advanced disease came [more]
Chair: O. Pagani, CH Breast cancer in young women is a complex disease, occurring when these women are at the peak of their reproductive years, family life and careers. Being a somewhat rare disease the [more]
Rifat Atun, Director of Global Health Systems at Harvard, warns the cancer community they must heal fragmented delivery and financing systems to tackle cancer worldwide. He summarises a seven point strategy from the World Oncology [more]
Countries across the world need to prepare for a 60% rise in cancer incidence over the next two decades. Freddie Bray Head of Cancer Surveillance at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) told [more]
The World Oncology Forum in Lugano, Switzerland, in October set a global challenge to address the growing threat from cancer in middle and low income countries. In the first of a series of short videos, [more]
One talk dominated the opening day of the fourth Advanced Breast Cancer conference in Lisbon (ABC-Lisbon) – a powerful, personal testimony from Bella Kaufman, an Israeli breast cancer oncologist and ABC-Lisbon faculty member who in [more]