According to a nationwide survey, almost one out of three patients with cancer or cancer survivors in the US use complementary/alternative medicines (CAMs). And among them, three out of ten do not think that their [more]
The US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication about robotically-assisted surgical procedures for cancer prevention or treatment, pointing out that their safety and effectiveness has not been established yet. In the Unites States, the [more]
A new article published in Annals of Internal Medicine states that average-risk patients can safely choose for an annual home stool test instead of a screening colonoscopy. In many countries, such as United Kingdom, Canada, [more]
Even essential medicines can at times become difficult to find in Europe, and this can in some cases represent a threat to the life of cancer patients who are otherwise being treated effectively: to prevent [more]
According to a paper published in JAMA Oncology, the disease label has a profound influence on patient decision-making in the setting of low-risk malignant neoplasms and can also lead to overtreatment. In a discrete choice [more]
According to an article published in the journal Annals of Oncology, men with early stage testicular cancer (Testicular Cancer in Clinical Stage I, or TC CS I) can be treated with one course of chemotherapy [more]
The staff of a crematorium in the United States was contaminated after dealing with the dead body of one or more persons who had died right after a radiotherapy course, raising concerns about the risk [more]
“Multidisciplinary team meetings have become meaningless.” “It’s a rubber stamp.” “It’s a bureaucratic exercise.” These comments, made by oncologists from a number of countries at an ESO meeting to discuss training needs, paint quite a [more]
Brachytherapy, a standard of care for some cancer indications, which involves delivering radiotherapy from a source within the tumour, is underfunded, increasingly marginalised and in decline across much of Europe. Janet Fricker talked to specialists [more]
In expert hands, diagnostic multiparametric MRI is more effective than the dreaded prostate biopsy as the first step in identifying prostate cancers. It is certainly less unpleasant. Guidelines and practice are changing to reflect this, [more]
For many young women with breast cancer, the chance to have a child is a top priority. They want to know what different treatments could do to their fertility and the health of a future [more]
What does an ideal cancer service look like and how can countries/regions make that transformation? A European collaborative project spent two years trying to answer this question. The solution they came up with is now [more]
While many western countries are pioneering safe delivery of more cancer care in primary, community and home settings, across central and eastern Europe, beds in university hospitals and cancer centres are still filled unnecessarily with [more]