Not ( just) another declaration
The World Cancer Declaration, issued in July, aims to mobilise efforts behind a limited number of aims that will make a big difference and can be quickly achieved. Download full article
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Closing the survival gap
EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe are trying to close the gap with Western Europe in cancer prevalence and survival rates. In Ljubljana, politicians, experts and patients came together to debate cancer plans, political [more]
Record-breaking stamp raises sticky questions
Concern that vital research is being side-lined for lack of funds prompted US breast cancer surgeon Ernie Bodai to campaign for a special fundraising stamp. Despite the 6-cent mark-up, it has outsold all previous commemorative [more]
Helping the media to get the message
How do you report on an issue that is publicly taboo and personally sensitive, and where the data are scant and the professionals can be unhelpful? Seven journalists who gathered at the UICC conference in [more]
Quality cancer care
If equal access to quality cancer care is to be more than an aspiration, we need to define minimum standards. ASCO and ESMO have now taken a lead with a consensus statement. Download full article
Chernobyl 20 years on
Estimates of the death toll from the nuclear reactor disaster at Chernobyl vary widely depending on who you listen to. But with leukaemia rates still rising, and a recent marked increase in solid tumours among [more]
Putting cancer on the global agenda
The International Union Against Cancer has launched a childhood cancer campaign to show that better awareness, early detection and appropriate treatment can make a difference in the developing world. Download full article
Can science win back public trust?
Confidence in science is becoming dangerously eroded in the face of a rise in religious fundamentalism and a general scepticism that scientific advances will be used for the good of humanity as a whole. Will [more]
The rocky road to unity
As FECS prepares to welcome organ-based societies through the front door, the medical oncologists threaten to leave by the back. Download full article
Coming out for breast cancer country by country
Walks to raise awareness of breast cancer are established traditions in many countries. But in many more, breast cancer remains hidden from public and political agendas. Avon’s Walk Around the World helped connect everyone fighting [more]
Radiotherapy report sets new targets for Europe
Radiotherapy is the most cost-effective treatment for many cancers. Now radiation oncologists have adopted an evidence-based approach to assessing need throughout Europe. And the league table for meeting that need reveals some surprising resultsÂ… Download [more]
ESMO Minimum Clinical Recommendations
Inadequate diagnostics, inappropriate treatment and poor follow-up deny cancer patients their best chance of survival. Whether you work in a hospital in rural Hungary or at the Jules Bordet in Brussels, ESMO’s updated recommendations spell [more]
MEPs join forces against cancer
Europe could do so much more to boost cancer research and ensure all its citizens get good quality treatment. Now a group of politicians has got together to make sure it does. Download full article