While we’re pouring resources into learning what keeps cancer cells alive, with the aim of blocking their supply lines, there is next to no interest in the molecular pathways that end up choking the life [more]
In Africa, palliative care equals death. Not because hospices are ill equipped, or governments have grossly neglected the patients, but because of cultural biases. Few households talk about end-of-life care even if a patient has [more]
Despite growing precision in understanding the biology of breast cancer, progress in extending survival of people with metastatic disease remains frustratingly slow. Median survival is only about three years, having edged up only slightly in [more]
Cannabis is an effective and safe option to help patients cope with malignancy related symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, sleep disorders, pain, anxiety, and depression. In a scenario where a physician often prescribes one medication [more]
How can journalists help raise the profile of cancer and get it on the political agenda in countries where infectious diseases get most attention, reliable data are scarce, doctors are reluctant to talk and editors [more]
People do better throughout their cancer journey when their physical, psychological and spiritual care needs are attended to. But how do we overcome entrenched mind sets that still resist integrating palliative and oncologic care? Philip [more]
As we learn more about what lies behind the differences in cancer outcomes across Europe, the question becomes: how do we end them? This article was first published in The Oncologist vol.18 no.12, and is [more]
Why are cancer patients being given medically futile treatment in the last weeks of their life? We hear this question raised time and again at international meetings and in journal articles, provoking polarised views and [more]
This editorial argues that handling the transition from active to palliative care is indeed a weak point in oncology, and if the cancer community fails to address it, we will leave it open to the [more]
Patient advocates and professionals alike believe these groundbreaking guidelines will raise standards of care, give much-needed structure to clinical research and improve awareness about a group of patients whose needs have been neglected for too [more]
According to Kaasa, head of the Cancer Clinic at Trondheim University Hospital, patients are falling through gaps in care provision because palliative care is seen as an add-on rather than integral to care plans. The [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]