A quarter of cancer patients who could benefit from radiotherapy do not receive it. As head of policy and partnerships, Chiara Gasparotto is positioning the European Society for Radiotherapy to make the case for better [more]
A daughter and granddaughter of Russian heads of radiology, now living and working in southern Switzerland, medical oncologist Maria Nazinkina Del Grande is keen to play a part in bringing her two worlds closer together. [more]
It’s about getting the right drug, to the right patient, at the right time, in the right amount, with the right patient information on how, when and why to use it. Peter McIntyre talks to [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]
Csaba Dégi is all set to study how patients in Romania transition back into primary care after their treatment is over, as part of current international efforts to focus on the needs of survivors. That’s [more]
Whether the patient in front of her is old and frail, young and trying to keep their life on track, or simply struggling to come to terms with a terminal diagnosis, Helen Boyle goes the [more]
As a young surgeon, Bahadir Güllüoğlu was drawn to specialising in breast cancer because of the opportunities that were opening up to work closely with other types of specialists, as well as with patients and [more]
Legislators and policy makers could do a lot more to promote cancer research if they understood that improving treatment strategies is not all about new drugs, and that patients and health budgets pay a high [more]
Training Egypt’s breast surgeons in techniques of plastic surgery is giving survivors a better quality of life and transforming women’s attitudes towards the disease. Having proved it is possible in his own country, Omar Youssef [more]
The explosion of new information in the era of personalised medicine has created a headache for busy clinicians. Lisa Hutchinson has spent the past 13 years helping them keep abreast of developments by sifting, sorting [more]
A chance to work at the heart of the trailblazing MINDACT trial gave Ivana Božović-Spasojević a memorable lesson in the value of international academic trials, and the logistics of how to run them. She spoke [more]
How is it possible to help patients decide on the best treatment option for them, when they are scared, and when there is such uncertainty? Elżbieta Senkus, a specialist in breast and prostate cancers, talks [more]
The head of Medical Oncology at Ioannina University Hospital not only oversees ESMO’s prolific output of clinical guidelines, but also helps ensure that they can be sustainably delivered in his own country, where hospital budgets [more]