Men diagnosed with prostate cancer have a wealth of options on how to proceed, but they can pay a high price if the quality of treatment is substandard. Could delivering all prostate care through specialist [more]
Information on how the performance of individual clinicians, teams and hospitals compares with the best is key to driving up standards in cancer care. ECCO is designing and implementing an audit framework named EURECCA to [more]
As more cancer patients survive longer, the need for rehabilitation services is rising up the political agenda, driven by patients who want their lives back, and by policy makers who want people to get back [more]
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The UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases opened a window of opportunity for decisive action to set poorer countries on the road towards sustainable cancer control. Download full article
How can we transmit knowledge about cancer patients’ needs to the people who have the power to act, in a way they can quickly and easily understand? Download full article
Given how preventable cervical cancer is, setting up screening programmes must be a key element in Europe’s cancer strategy. But as this six country initiative is finding out, it takes a lot. Download full article
Oncologists wanting to develop and work can find it hard to balance the competing priorities of clinical practice and study. This new online MSc in Advanced Oncology run by the University of Ulm may be [more]
Some terminally ill cancer patients, seeing only suffering and indignity ahead, want to die at a time and in a manner of their own choosing. But how does legal backing for assisted dying impact on [more]
The EUROCARE 4 report has delivered an implicit merit mark to eastern European countries, whose relatively poor survival figures are now improving faster than those in the rest of Europe. But older patients are still [more]
More than 20 years since the WHO published its three-step guideline for controlling cancer pain, European patients are still complaining of pain that is long lasting, interferes with their daily activities and can even be [more]
The genomic era offers enormous potential for patients with rare cancers, but progress is being held back by structures that separate research from care, regulatory practices that penalise small patient populations, and rules that restrict [more]
The media often hype the benefits of superfoods’ to protect against or even cure cancer. But keeping weight down and taking exercise are known to offer far greater protection than any individual food or nutrient [more]