Among patients with a history of cancer, risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) might be lower: a study published in JAMA Network Open showed that elderly cancer patients had modestly higher memory function and slower memory [more]
Over 20 specialised centres that will be open to the public, and events in ten cities will be part of the Italian effort to raise public awareness on early diagnosis in head and neck cancers, [more]
In June of this year I finally completed more than a year of gruelling treatment for breast cancer, which started with a double mastectomy and continued with various types of chemotherapy. I will be taking [more]
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) are worried by the “tsunami of future cancer cases that will drain our health systems and our economies”, and call [more]
Oncology is understandably fascinated by ideas around precision treatment. As a medical oncologist who was there when the germs of this approach first appeared 50 years ago, I do of course share the excitement over [more]
Cancer, genetics, “bad luck” and prevention through lifestyle: two years after their first study that tried to quantify the random mutations that accumulate during stem cell divisions in healthy cells and drive cancer in different [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]
A brilliant visual campaign called «Know your Lemons» (hashtag #knowyourlemons), launched by a British charity to increase awareness about breast cancer prevention, become viral on social media, with over 7 million views in a few days just on Facebook alone. The [more]
The risk of developing breast cancer varies widely from woman to woman in ways we are increasingly able to define. Marc Beishon asks: Is it time to move to population screening for risk, and tailor mammography schedules – [more]
Combining the complementary approaches of HPV vaccination and screening could accelerate declines in the burden of cervical cancer argue Xavier Bosch and colleagues. They are proposing the HPV-FASTER protocol as a way to achieve it. [more]
“In the history of cancer research, there has always been tension between those who want to treat cancer and those who think we should prevent it,” writes the pioneering medical oncologist and former head of the [more]
Dear Alberto, We received the last Cancer World. Congratulations, it’s very nicely formatted, informative, well written and covers topics from a perspective rarely seen in “usual” specialised journals. We were particularly interested by the article [more]
New knowledge favours promoting peace over waging war The world spends billions on trench warfare with cancer and makes slow progress with heavy collateral damage. New knowledge about the process of carcinogenesis and tumour growth [more]