It’s not just a matter of clinical outcomes: quality of life goes far beyond the final result of a cancer treatment and involves several aspects of daily life, both for patients and their caregivers. And [more]
My good friend Professor Richard Sullivan wrote an excellent piece for Cancer World on how to reverse the decline in the benefit per cost of cancer interventions. It gave me food for thought. Sullivan gave [more]
Two comprehensive reports addressing cancer care in Europe have been published recently: «Past and current approaches to cancer care may not be sufficient for tomorrow. We face limited resources and a demand for cancer that [more]
The WIN 2016 Symposium program will elaborate the overarching theme Innovative Approaches to Improve Cancer Patient Outcomes in four plenary sessions, divided over the two days of the meeting: New tools for early diagnosis, selecting therapies and monitoring [more]
As founding editor of Cancer World, Kathy Redmond set out to open up debate on the future of cancer care in Europe. She started a conversation that a full range of professionals and patient advocates [more]
We need to greatly improve our ability to monitor the impact of treatments on outcomes. ‘The right treatment, for the right person, at the right time’, represents a significant shift from ‘one-size-fits-all’ medicine to a [more]
Patients who are receiving adequate nutrition have a better prognosis, respond better to chemotherapy and can tolerate higher doses of anticancer treatments. It is therefore important for oncologists to assess and manage malnutrition. Malnutrition, which [more]