The story of how breast care in Europe moved from one-size-fits-all mutilating mastectomy towards a model of care tailored to the individual, stressing breast conservation and delivered by multidisciplinary breast teams is one that workers [more]
Colonoscopy screening has the potential to save thousands of lives, but only if the public is prepared to go along with it. Polish journalist Pawel Walewski won the ESO Best Reporter Award 2007 for his [more]
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It takes a surgeon to stop a surgeon, says John Northover, consultant surgeon at London’s world-renowned colorectal hospital. And between his heavy clinical and teaching commitments, he concentrates on helping minimise patient interventions, through promoting [more]
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The fall of the Iron Curtain offered European oncology the chance to swell its ranks with new cadres, keen to learn and bursting with ideas and confidence. Christoph Zielinski, born of Polish emigrés and raised [more]
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Hernán Cortés-Funes scored a victory for medical oncology when he helped convince Spain to become the first European country to grant the discipline specialist status. A bitter split with radiotherapy dating from that time has [more]
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The French Cancer plan of 2003 raised expectations among the public and patients.This article, which looks at how a key measure is being implemented in practice, was one of several stories that earned Paul Benkimoun [more]
Farhat Ben Ayed played a key role in building Tunisia’s cancer services, armed with little more than a solid education, a sense of duty and a remarkable talent for motivating others. Fighting cancer, he believes, [more]
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Specialising in a cancer with very poor prognosis, Heine Hansen is as keen as anyone to find new therapies that can improve survival. But he also believes that significantly better results could be achieved using [more]