Breast units staffed with specialist multidisciplinary teams deliver superior care and quality of life to women and men with breast cancer: this is the premise of the Manifesto on Breast Cancer Centres/Units that was discussed [more]
The Greek women sitting in the National and European parliament managed to find a prominent place in the political agenda for women with breast cancer through the establishment of the so-called “road map for treating [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]
Images of carbonized pizza, paella, croissant and meatballs with tzaziki are smartly used by a Danish campaign on sun safety advice for Danes tourists who love to spend their holidays in Southern Europe, where their [more]
The protest that brought many Romanians in the streets, ignited by a law proposal on corruption, soon touched other sensitive topics, including the dramatic state of public hospitals. A highly contested law proposed by the [more]
The cost of drugs and the critical importance of the patient voice in designing clinical trials were two of the key issues picked out by journalists who attended the European Cancer Congress (ECCO 2017) recently [more]
«We must abandon the fiction that current oversight systems are adequate to protect volunteers in first-in-human trials or to steward scientific efforts»: this is the strong conclusion of a paper published in Nature by two [more]
Healthcare professionals in the United States are worried by the impact that the executive order by President Donald Trump barring access in the country to nationals of seven predominantly Muslim countries is having on hospitals [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]
Journalists from China, Germany, India and Kenya have been recognised for their outstanding articles on cancer in the 2016 Cancer World Journalism Awards. The awards, organised by the European School of Oncology’s Cancer World magazine, [more]
In women hit by breast cancer, the size and type of social relationships influence the rates of recurrence and mortality, according to a research published on Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. [more]
In the last decade, cancer cases increased worldwide by 33 percent, mostly due to population aging, population growth and changes in age-specific cancer rates: this is one of the key conclusions of the new report [more]
Efforts to establish a new comprehensive cancer research center in Athens as part of the National Hellenic Research Foundation are underway, according to the director of the foundation, Dr. Vasilis Gregoriou. The National Hellenic Research [more]