Patient advocates believe their input into guiding the research process is key to ensuring the right questions are investigated in the right way. Where its been successfully tried, both sides agree there is no going [more]
A new model for caring for depression in cancer patients shows how much can be achieved even on a tight budget. That being diagnosed with cancer carries an increased risk of depression is perhaps not [more]
With all the investigations, imaging and testing involved in personalising treatments, it can be hard to remember to listen to what the patient is saying. One doctor keeps a letter with him as a permanent [more]
The ABC conference on advanced breast cancer gives centre stage to a group of patients who feel theyve been marginalised and their needs ignored for too long. People who have been treated for early-stage breast [more]
Every patient wants to be cured. But a culture that defines success as cure’ condemns many patients and doctors to failure. What does treatment ‘success’ mean in cancer? Does it only mean curing the cancer? [more]