July 2020

COVID-19 is creating significant challenges for millions of cancer patients around the world, including delays in diagnosis and treatment ‒ all made worse by an underlying concern about the essential…

For cancer cachexia, dietary counseling should be offered with the goal of providing patients and caregivers with management advice, conclude the first guidelines on cachexia ever published by the American…

National dietary guidelines in most countries need to be reformed to take into account health and environmental targets, concludes a study published in the BMJ (published online July 15). The…

What should be the priorities for the EU Cancer Mission? With the initial recommendations now open for comment and consultation, we hear from some of the players about the pitfalls…

The overlapping biology identified between the molecular pathogenesis of COVID-19 and prostate cancer raises the possibility of repurposing drugs, including androgen deprivation therapy, for treating COVID-19, suggests a review in…

In the majority of cancers it is the metastases and not the primary tumour that prove fatal. Adriana Albini reviews steps in the malignant process and strategies to block it. …

Momentum is growing behind efforts to ensure new cancer therapies do not enter the market without any strategy for developing the evidence that patients and their doctors need to make…

The second woman ever to hold the ESMO presidency, Solange Peters brings to the role impressive clinical and research experience in lung cancer, one of the most challenging and fast-moving…

Is night-shift work a risk factor for breast cancer? Experimental research just published in Nature Communications gives the molecular basis for asserting that it may well be. Researchers at Paris-Saclay…

All over Europe, talented young doctors are starting out on oncology careers with enthusiasm and dedication. A new ‘college’ set up by the European School of Oncology, has just opened…