Working at a massive hospital in a country with high rates of advanced women’s cancers gave Vesna Kesic the ideal opportunity to hone her skills as a gynaecological oncology surgeon. Thanks to her commitment to [more]
Suppressing metastases by changing microenvironments doesn’t sound like heartland research for a surgeon. But that hasn’t deterred Michael Gnant, who presented a paper on this subject at last year’s ASCO. He argues that cancer surgery [more]
Too slow, too expensive, too ineffective. Researchers are crying out for a new battle plan that will aim high and deliver on the great promise of personalised therapies. We all want to see target patient [more]
Pat Price pioneered the use of PET imaging to investigate how cancer drugs move in the body and the effect they have. She worries that oncology has lost its way: translational research’ has become a [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]
Cancer is classically a disease of the elderly, yet all too often the special needs of older patients seem to be ignored. Routine use of screening to distinguish patients healthy enough to receive standard therapy [more]