UPMC is a 14-billion-dollar integrated global health enterprise, closely linked to the University of Pittsburgh. Twenty years ago it opened a transplant hospital in Sicily. Since then, its International arm has expanded to build hospitals [more]
In many books used for teaching the alphabet to children, the letter A is associated to an apple: the association may seem obvious, but usually it is not so for an African child: in Africa [more]
«Maybe in our fight against cancer we are just looking at the wrong endpoints, focusing our attention on techinicalities like the hazard ratio of a trial instead of thinking at the best way to help [more]
Does robotic surgery offer superior outcomes? Yes and no – or better: yes and maybe – answers a study published earlier this month in The Lancet Oncology: their clinical benefit is still uncertain, but robots [more]
The new “Patient Guide on Survivorship” produced jointly by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) the European Cancer Patient coalition (ECPC) and the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) is now available on the web in [more]
When we talk about advances in cancer care patient advocacy groups tend to focus on the development of new drugs, immunotherapy being the latest flavour. This is encouraged by the pharma industry, keen to gain [more]
What happens to a strong and motivated scientist when she is left by her husband? When it happened to Mary-Claire King, many unusual things happened: she learned that she had just been awarded tenure at [more]
University Post-graduate Course – Clinical Oncology: Sarcomas Scientific Coordinator: P.G. Casali, IT The University of Milan, Italy, in close collaboration with the European School of Oncology, will organise the first post-graduate course on clinical oncology of [more]
From Harlem to Helsinki, from Stirling to Sarajevo, the Internet is being put to novel uses in the cause of cancer prevention and care. The lessons learned have now been used to map out an [more]
The European School of Oncology is pleased to announce the “ESO Breast Cancer Observatory: innovation and care in the next 12 months”, which will be held in conjunction with the International Tehran Breast Cancer Congress (TBCC9) -Multidisciplinary Approach [more]
The «intelligent» supercomputer that IBM started selling around three years ago as “Watson for Oncology” claiming that it was capable of recommending the best cancer treatments to doctors was the object of an in-depth investigation by STAT, [more]
The conclusions of the 2012 Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO) could be wrong: the authors of the trial – published on the Journal of the National Cancer Institute – had found no [more]
Solange Peters, MD, PhD, head of the Medical Oncology Service, chair of Thoracic Oncology, Oncology Department, of the University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV), will be the President of the European [more]