“Multidisciplinary team meetings have become meaningless.” “It’s a rubber stamp.” “It’s a bureaucratic exercise.” These comments, made by oncologists from a number of countries at an ESO meeting to discuss training needs, paint quite a [more]
Our new vocabulary gene, genome, molecular, targeted, personalised no longer inspires the confidence it once did, and as the cancer community prepares to gather at the 18th ECCO – 40th ESMO European Cancer [more]
Selected reports edited by Janet Fricker Preoperative chemoradio-therapy improves survival in oesophageal cancer => New England Journal of Medicine Preoperative chemoradiotherapy improves survival among patients with potentially curable oesophageal or oesophagogastric-junction cancers, a phase III [more]
Fourquet will become the first radio-oncologist to chair Europe’s major breast cancer conference, EBCC 7, in March. Here he argues that radio-oncologists need to be involved in the design stage of trials. Download full article
Multidisciplinary teams provide the best quality cancer care, as specialists come together to discuss diagnoses and plan treatments. They raise standards, improve patient experiences and save lives. Sadly, most of Europe’s cancer patients never have [more]
A panel of experts is predicting that colorectal cancer patients will soon feel the benefits of the sort of individualised therapies that are beginning to be used in breast cancer. More effort is needed to [more]