With increasing numbers of cancer drugs being approved on shorter trials that involve fewer patients, getting accurate reports of adverse events and side effects after approval is increasingly important. Maria Delaney reports on efforts to [more]
Stimulating development of more and better paediatric cancer drugs will be key to making progress, particularly in some of the hardest-to-treat childhood cancers. Gilles Vassal, past-President of the European Society for Paediatric Oncology, outlines emerging [more]
Bradford Hesse and colleagues explore insights gained from over a decade of data gathered by the US National Cancer Institute to monitor changes in the communication environment regarding cancer-related information. This is an abridged version [more]
Chemotherapy. That’s the word Jana Hermann doesn’t want to hear under any circumstances. She has breast cancer; she received the diagnosis four weeks ago. She underwent surgery to remove one of her breasts and five [more]
Anna Wagstaff looks at changes in the business, regulatory and science arenas that could open the way to delivering better cancer treatments, faster and cheaper. Of 91 new therapies approved for solid tumours between 2002 [more]
Two comprehensive reports addressing cancer care in Europe have been published recently: «Past and current approaches to cancer care may not be sufficient for tomorrow. We face limited resources and a demand for cancer that [more]
The topic of cancer survivorship is getting a lot of airing these days. There have been conferences dedicated to the topic – a sure indicator of interest. Professor Sir Mike Richards, England’s first National Cancer [more]
You might have thought there would be huge variations in cancer journalism from countries as diverse as Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Romania, Russia and Sweden. You might have thought [more]
Images of carbonized pizza, paella, croissant and meatballs with tzaziki are smartly used by a Danish campaign on sun safety advice for Danes tourists who love to spend their holidays in Southern Europe, where their [more]
The protest that brought many Romanians in the streets, ignited by a law proposal on corruption, soon touched other sensitive topics, including the dramatic state of public hospitals. A highly contested law proposed by the [more]
The cost of drugs and the critical importance of the patient voice in designing clinical trials were two of the key issues picked out by journalists who attended the European Cancer Congress (ECCO 2017) recently [more]
«We must abandon the fiction that current oversight systems are adequate to protect volunteers in first-in-human trials or to steward scientific efforts»: this is the strong conclusion of a paper published in Nature by two [more]
Healthcare professionals in the United States are worried by the impact that the executive order by President Donald Trump barring access in the country to nationals of seven predominantly Muslim countries is having on hospitals [more]