Every summer a group of top oncologists gather in the ancient city of Ioannina to give a select group of motivated medical students a taste of what its like to work in cancer. The number [more]
By the time they reach 40, survivors of childhood cancers are likely to have at least one chronic health problem resulting from their treatment. The search is now on for ways to help people manage [more]
It was stumbling across a poster for a meeting about cancer in the developing world that turned journalist Joanne Silberner from a sceptic into a believer, and prompted her to do her bit to change [more]
Bettina Ryll is a patient advocate and founding member of the Independent Melanoma Community Advisory Board. A qualified doctor, with a PhD in molecular biology, she gained a deeper insight into the reality of cancer, [more]
Ending the overtreatment of women with DCIS will require enough women to have the courage and insight to demand something better. Tiffany OCallaghan won a Best Cancer Reporter Award for opening up the debate with [more]
If detected early, 80/90% of head and neck cancers can be cured. Yet lack of awareness means that two out of three cases are picked up late. The Make Sense campaign takes a message of [more]
Adel Araf is a clinical oncologist who trained in Ain Shams University, Cairo, and is now working as a specialist medical oncologist in Dubai Hospital, in the UAE. He leads a group of young oncologists [more]
Winning the argument for expanding and upgrading radiotherapy facilities is not easy in the present economic climate. How many radiotherapy mach-ines are there in each country in Europe? It might seem an easy question to [more]
Mariagrazia De Lisa is a second-year resident at the medical oncology department of the university hospital Ospedali Riuniti delle Marche, in Ancona, Italy. She came top out of 63 other students from 25 countries in [more]
Fedro Alessandro Peccatori is director of the Fertility and Reproduction Unit at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. He specialises in breast and gynaecological cancers and tumours of young adults, and has particular responsibility [more]
Are dysfunctional relations between academia and industry hindering the process of turning progress in our understanding of cancer into truly effective treatments? The business model for developing new cancer drugs is broken and needs replacing [more]
Is the centralisation of cancer services justified? Could many cancers be treated more locally without compromising safety? Cancer World’s Anna Wagstaff posed this question to two experts: Susan O’Reilly and Renée Otter. In an effort [more]
At a time when the British media has been under the spotlight for its for poor ethical standards, The Independent’s Big Tobacco Exposed series shows why good investigative journalism remains so important in opening powerful [more]