Major changes ahead
Last year we asked you to let us know how you would like to continue reading Cancer World articles. You told us that, while some of you still prefer holding a print copy in your hands, [more]
Editorial
Why the Cancer World Journalism Award is more important than ever
What’s the real story? This month Cancer World launches its latest Journalism Award, and it’s more important than it’s ever been. A year ago, the overall winner of the last award explained why it meant so much to her.
“I am glad that the voices of the poorest Indian cancer patients are heard across the world and I hope there is an improvement in their access to treatment,” said Swagata [more]
Winning where it matters
We’re winning the war on cancer on a scientific level but losing it in the real world. That was the conclusion reached by 100 top researchers, clinicians and advocates at the first World Oncology Forum [more]
Team members learn from one another
“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]
Gender gap in oncology and in scientific research is “actionable”
It is well established that women are under-represented in positions of power and leadership, in scientific and health disciplines across the world. There is a lot of concern about it and it seems to be widely [more]
The best decisions come from the best run MDTs
Having just retired from active clinical practice as a breast surgeon, I can look back at how decision making has evolved over the course of my career, from when a single doctor took the decisions, [more]
‘Me doctor, you patient’ – can’t we do better than that?
While holidaying on the Greek island of Ithaca, where the Odyssey ended, I met a man of my age and my country who had just finished his treatment for colorectal cancer. He now lives on [more]
From numbers to new drugs, the crisis of paradigms in medicine
The recent controversy that has shaken the International Cochrane Network to its roots is very troubling. It is not yet clear if the disagreements on the quality of a recent systematic review on the efficacy [more]
Be a champion for change
A n estimated 50,000 people who die from cancer every year could still be alive if the quality of diagnosis and care in European countries with the poorest survival rates were as good as the median [more]
Bringing you extra in 2018
The Cancer World team hopes that all our readers have had a good start to 2018. We look forward to bringing you critical, independent and rounded coverage of the big stories affecting quality cancer care [more]
Hats off to the patient advocates
“A room full of healers.” This is how Larry Norton, Medical Director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, described the feel of the auditorium during the 4th Advanced Breast Cancer [more]
We’re researching the history of oncology: What’s in it for you?
The history of medicine has often been reduced to hagiography – a celebration of past events lacking critical scrutiny. The contemporary history of oncology, with its ‘breakthroughs’ and ‘disruptive’ innovations, has likewise been exposed to [more]
Learning from haematology
Many of our most profound insights into the nature of cancer and its treatment have originated in the field of haematology. It was the high levels of bone marrow toxicity among soldiers who had been [more]