ABC4, Lisbon 2017: day two report
Day two of ABC-Lisbon featured a pioneer in metastatic breast cancer advocacy, Musa Mayer, who gave the ABC Award lecture. Mayer told the history of how the “silent voices” of women with advanced disease came [more]
2017
Franco Cavalli: «Policy makers must be more engaged in the fight against cancer»
The World Oncology Forum in Lugano, Switzerland, in October set a global challenge to address the growing threat from cancer in middle and low income countries. In the first of a series of short videos, [more]
At the ABC in Lisbon, crossing the lines between being a doctor and patient
One talk dominated the opening day of the fourth Advanced Breast Cancer conference in Lisbon (ABC-Lisbon) – a powerful, personal testimony from Bella Kaufman, an Israeli breast cancer oncologist and ABC-Lisbon faculty member who in [more]
The (overrated) power of the hazard ratio
«Maybe in our fight against cancer we are just looking at the wrong endpoints, focusing our attention on techinicalities like the hazard ratio of a trial instead of thinking at the best way to help [more]
Fellowhips available for European journalists reporting on cancer
Health journalists from all over Europe are invited to apply for one of the 12 fellowships to attend the European Cancer Congress ECCO2017, which will be held in Amsterdam from 27-30 January 2017, with the [more]