The counterfeit drugs trade, once largely confined to the developing world, is now firmly established in western countries. Greater vigilance from the cancer community is need. Download full article
Many cancer medications are being prescribed by the month, year, or even indefinitely, tolerability is increasingly more important, yet patients have no direct input into evaluating a new drug. Download full article
Cancer kills more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Going by recent global health trends, this year will see cancer emerge as the world’s single leading cause of death. Download full article
The bureaucratic obstacles that often prevent European cancer patients from joining clinical trials in other Member States came under the spotlight recently in the case of a young woman with melanoma. Download full article
Male breast cancer is a rare disease, accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancers worldwide but how does their disease differ from breast cancers in women? Fatima Cardoso explains why men should be [more]
How do you help close the gap between the worst and the best cancer outcomes in Europe, when you have no legal basis for intervening in Member States’ health policies and have precious little money [more]
A campaign to tackle the particular problems posed by rare cancers was launched this summer. European Action Against Rare Cancers (www.rarecancers.eu) is determined to put this neglected set of diseases firmly on the European health [more]
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First results of randomised clinical screening trials are traditionally met with a barrage of comments by opinionated observers, and the back-to-back publication in the March 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine on [more]
Patients are living with advanced cancer for ever more prolonged periods of time. But information and support services have been slow to catch up with clinical progress, and the needs of this rapidly growing group [more]
Ambulatory care services are coming under huge pressure from the steady rise in the number of cancer patients who require long-term follow-up. Facilities are overcrowded, staff overstretched, and extended clinic waiting times are becoming the [more]
Politically correct wording seems to be a must, and in many areas this leads to variously differing solutions, which can all be criticised. But a fact is a fact, and hiding it behind nicer’ words [more]
Millions of people will die unnecessarily unless a massive effort is made to tackle the worsening global cancer epidemic. But the investment in cancer control that is so desperately needed, particularly in low – and [more]