The topic of cancer survivorship is getting a lot of airing these days. There have been conferences dedicated to the topic – a sure indicator of interest. Professor Sir Mike Richards, England’s first National Cancer [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]
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]
The decision to focus on infections associated with cancer treatments, back in the early ’70s, put Jean Klastersky on a path that would lead to him pioneering the field of supportive care in cancer. Download [more]