Will pathology services need a serious overhaul if they are to deliver the accuracy required for precision medicine? Two European initiatives are trying to build the case for change in this least visible of cancer [more]
No pathologist can be an expert in every type of cancer. But there is a lot that can be done to greatly improve the accuracy of diagnoses, particularly in rare cancers, as a recent European [more]
Is the centralisation of cancer services justified? Could many cancers be treated more locally without compromising safety? Cancer World’s Anna Wagstaff posed this question to two experts: Susan O’Reilly and Renée Otter. In an effort [more]
Treating the right patient with the right therapy at the right time depends on having the right picture of every patient’s key biological markers. A number of initiatives are now springing up across Europe to [more]
Men diagnosed with prostate cancer have a wealth of options on how to proceed, but they can pay a high price if the quality of treatment is substandard. Could delivering all prostate care through specialist [more]
Information on how the performance of individual clinicians, teams and hospitals compares with the best is key to driving up standards in cancer care. ECCO is designing and implementing an audit framework named EURECCA to [more]