Europe’s cancer drugs shortage is hurting patients

1 January 2015 0

Hospital pharmacies across Europe are experiencing frequent delays in accessing a wide range of commonly used cancer drugs. This editorial examines the extent of the problem and calls for action at an EU level to [more]

Hospital pharmacies across Europe are experiencing frequent delays in accessing a wide range of commonly used cancer drugs. This editorial examines the extent of the problem and calls for action at an EU level to protect patients... [ more ]

Right patient, right drug, wrong dose?

1 January 2015 0

Dose too strongly and the patient gets more harm than benefit, too weakly and the drug can’t do its job. Could oncology learn from other fields about using pharmacokinetics in the clinic to hit it [more]

Dose too strongly and the patient gets more harm than benefit, too weakly and the drug can’t do its job. Could oncology learn from other fields about using pharmacokinetics in the clinic to hit it right in each patient?... [ more ]

The price of survival

1 January 2015 0

Broadcaster Katrin Zöfel showed the value of good journalism with her half-hour broadcast for Deutschlandfunk, German national radio, which told the stories of people living with long-term effects of being treated for cancer. More than [more]

Broadcaster Katrin Zöfel showed the value of good journalism with her half-hour broadcast for Deutschlandfunk, German national radio, which told the stories of people living with long-term effects of being treated for cancer.... [ more ]

Overdiagnosis under the microscope

1 January 2015 0

A new conference looks at the social as well as individual implications of how we use diagnostic tests that cannot accurately pick out real from apparent threats. Improving the way we spot, report and explore [more]

A new conference looks at the social as well as individual implications of how we use diagnostic tests that cannot accurately pick out real from apparent threats.... [ more ]

Lymphoedema following treatment for breast cancer: a new approach to an old problem

1 January 2015 0

Screening breast cancer patients for lymphoedema makes it possible to identify problems early and take action to halt its progression. Oncologists have an important role to play, particularly given the rise in lymphoedema rates that [more]

Screening breast cancer patients for lymphoedema makes it possible to identify problems early and take action to halt its progression. Oncologists have an important role to play, particularly given the rise in lymphoedema rates...... [ more ]

Caring for one of our own

1 January 2015 0

When you’re caring for a patient and friend, who was recently your colleague, working out boundaries and negotiating the particular privileges and pressures of caring for them can be hard. The problem was explored in [more]

When you’re caring for a patient and friend, who was recently your colleague, working out boundaries and negotiating the particular privileges and pressures of caring for them can be hard. The problem was explored in a Schwartz...... [ more ]

EU data protection regulation harming cancer research

1 January 2015 0

The cancer community is deeply concerned about the unintended consequences of the current wording of the European Union (EU) draft Regulation on Data Protection, which may challenge the survival of retrospective clinical research, biobanking, and [more]

The cancer community is deeply concerned about the unintended consequences of the current wording of the European Union (EU) draft Regulation on Data Protection, which may challenge the survival of retrospective clinical research... [ more ]

Newsround

1 January 2015 0

Statins improve survival in colorectal cancer => Journal of Clinical Oncology Using statins after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer was found to be associated with improved survival, finds a large population-based cohort study. The study, [more]

Selected reports edited by Janet Fricker... [ more ]