Sharing with an unwelcome partner
The other day someone asked me what it feels like living, day in day out, with a cancer. I’ve been thinking about the answer to that question since. I don’t really think I have a [more]
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Princess Dina Mired: «Support developing countries to make cancer control plans»
Princess Dina Mired, President-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is calling on the international cancer community to change the way it supports developing countries. Princess Dina who was Director of the King [more]
Mary Gospodarowicz: «We need a ‘can-do’ attitude to global cancer control»
“I absolutely hate the assumption that cancer is too complicated for us to act. In fact probably cancer care and control is much less complicated than running the infrastructure in Mumbai, or London or Manhattan.” [more]
Rifat Atun: Seven point strategy to tackle global cancer
Rifat Atun, Director of Global Health Systems at Harvard, warns the cancer community they must heal fragmented delivery and financing systems to tackle cancer worldwide. He summarises a seven point strategy from the World Oncology [more]
Freddie Bray: «Four in five countries cannot accurately report cancer deaths»
Countries across the world need to prepare for a 60% rise in cancer incidence over the next two decades. Freddie Bray Head of Cancer Surveillance at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) told [more]
Franco Cavalli: «Policy makers must be more engaged in the fight against cancer»
The World Oncology Forum in Lugano, Switzerland, in October set a global challenge to address the growing threat from cancer in middle and low income countries. In the first of a series of short videos, [more]
Scanners, zappers and nanobots: are patient groups missing a trick?
When we talk about advances in cancer care patient advocacy groups tend to focus on the development of new drugs, immunotherapy being the latest flavour. This is encouraged by the pharma industry, keen to gain [more]
How to help a friend with metastatic breast cancer
So, your friend endured any number of treatments: chemotherapy, lumpectomy or mastectomy, possibly reconstruction, radiation therapy… and then when scans were done, instead of hearing the magical words “remission” or “cured,” your friend heard, “your [more]
Supporting others, while dealing with my own fears
My first cancer experience came in September 2014. Then the second cancer followed, to finish what the first has left … There were long surgeries, chemotherapies, double mastectomy, dark thoughts, pain, despair. And I always [more]
Prostate cancer: hope in the blood
May was awash with news stories about blood tests for prostate cancer. Reports that a new serum test called IsoPSA could predict prostate cancer more precisely than conventional PSA testing brought obvious interest. The new [more]
Recognising the value of cancer nurses – today and every day!
On May 18th The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS for short) will be celebrating the first European Cancer Nursing Day. We are doing this because we feel it is important for everyone to understand what [more]
Survivorship ten years on – diagnosis or dismissal
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]
A vintage year for cancer journalism worldwide
You might have thought there would be huge variations in cancer journalism from countries as diverse as Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, Romania, Russia and Sweden. You might have thought [more]